Being A Woman Quotes

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I like being a woman, even in a man's world.
After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Whitney Houston

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model.
I enjoy being a woman.
It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
- Cathy Freeman

I like being a strong, independent woman,
and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
- Dido Armstrong

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task,
since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman
was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
- Carole King

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman
is that one can always pretend to be more stupid
than one is and no one is surprised.
- Freya Stark

I think being a woman is like being Irish.
Everyone says you're important and nice,
but you take second place all the same.
- Iris Murdoch

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage,
which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered,
a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
- Anna Quindlen

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother,
but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
- Roseanne Barr

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals.
To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
- Fran Lebowitz

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever
didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
- Peggy Fleming

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman.
And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humo
about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
- Jami Gertz

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
- Joan Severance

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
- Portia de Rossi

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
- Jose Bergamin

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
- Simone de Beauvoir

A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- George Eliot

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
- Alice Hoffman

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
- Boris Kodjoe

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.
- Kristen Johnston

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
- Alexander Pope

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
- Florence E. Allen

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
- Brigitte Bardot

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
- Dana Plato

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
- Ryan Gosling

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
- Jim Costa

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- Simone de Beauvoir

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.
- Barry Watson

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
- Nancy Pelosi

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
- Sandra Cisneros

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
- Carol Moseley Braun

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.
- Jessica Biel

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
- Havelock Ellis

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
- Jessica Savitch

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
- Marguerite Duras

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
- Karolina Kurkova

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
- Casey Stengel

I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
- Linda Evans

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
- Amy Grant

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
- Warren Farrell

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
- Sister Parish

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
- Kevin Costner

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
- Gilbert Hernandez

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
- Elizabeth Moon

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
- Emma Thompson

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
- Liv Tyler

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
- Jessica Lange

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
- Jeanne Moreau

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
- Patty Duke

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
- Madonna Ciccone

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
- Vanessa Carlton

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
- Catherine Bell

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
- Emo Philips

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.
- Richard Masur

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
- Antonia Fraser

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
- Olympia Dukakis

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
- Emma Goldman

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
- Kenny Loggins

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
- Ernestine L. Rose

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.
- Conrad Veidt

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Alan Alda

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
- Simone de Beauvoir

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