A Grown Up Woman Quotes

#1. Heartbreaking and brave, Rachel Resnick masterfully pulls the past to the present, exploring how the seeds of addiction planted during an unhappy girlhood can blossom into a grown-up woman's frantic search for love. LOVE JUNKIE is a memoir unlike any other; it will blow your mind.

Lee Montgomery

#2. You can't be a grown-up woman and not like chocolate.

Julie Dawn Cole

#3. I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.

Alice Munro

#4. Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

Twiggy

#5. Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.

Jane Austen

#7. In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.

Bart Hopkins

#8. A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness

Ottessa Moshfegh

#9. hadn't grown into being a woman, she had become a woman with an exclamation mark, the sort of hardy feminine brute of the Pleistocene from which all women, great and frail, are descended.

J. Ryan Stradal

#10. I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Rebecca Ferguson

#11. She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

Carol Grace

#12. I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff.

Caitlin Moran

#13. I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

Tori Amos

#14. Jillian had chosen their cutest dresses that made grown woman start talking in abnormally high voices. ("Oh, just look at you! Aren't you just so cute!" This wouldn't be so worrisome if it wasn't the same voice that women used with puppies.)

Wen Spencer

#15. I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

Sharon Stone

#16. This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed.

Victor LaValle

#17. The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Pablo Casals

#18. Yeah," Colt said, "she is good about praying. I am so proud of the way she has grown into a fine Christian woman who puts the Lord first. Of course I'm not saying she's perfect, but I don't think I could love her any more than I do right now.

Robyn L. Ackland

#19. Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

Karen Finerman

#20. She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

J.M. Barrie

#21. Most of the time she considered herself a grown woman, and accordingly a one-night stand could be fun. (Angie)

Annie Nicholas

#22. I am a grown woman
mostly
and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

Annie Barrows

#23. He could have loved her as a man loves a woman, protected her, provided for her, given her children, grown old with her and passed on to the next life with her. Damn

J.R. Barrett

#24. had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,

Jane Austen

#25. He kissed her dizzy, then lifted her. She wrapped her legs around his waisst as he kissed his way down her neck.
"Make love to me," she whispered. "Like I'm a full-grown woman."
He pulled back to look at her. "As opposed to...?

Dana Marton

#26. My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.

Coco Austin

#27. Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.

Maureen Howard

#28. Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.

Kirsten Beyer

#29. She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there.

Akif Kichloo

#30. If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

Anne Fadiman

#31. Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Osamu Tezuka

#32. In a few years, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, "What do you wish for?

Giambattista Basile

#33. Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don't imagine impossible things.

Julie Garwood

#34. Underneath my stiffened gown
Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin,
A basin in the midst of hedges grown
So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding,
But she guesses he is near,
And the sliding of the water
Seems the stroking of a dear
Hand upon her.

Amy Lowell

#35. Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Muriel Barbery

#36. When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

Henry David Thoreau

#37. I was a scared little girl barely into my teens then. Now I'm a grown woman. I can kill you whenever I want. Again

Stieg Larsson

#38. I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#39. I'm a grown woman and can take care of myself. If someone has a problem with my feelings for Bastien and thinks I shouldn't get involved with him because they don't like him, they can kiss my merry mortal ass.

Dianne Duvall

#40. I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

Elisabeth Rohm

#41. After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#42. We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21.

Virginia Woolf

#43. Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them ... It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they've crossed into puberty? If so, it's working.

Tina Fey

#44. You're a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I'm going to trust that you know your own mind.

Tessa Dare

#45. Now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought

Jane Austen

#46. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

B. J. Daniels

#47. I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

Niall Horan

#48. At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to

Isabel Allende

#49. He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

J.M. Barrie

#50. But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.

Cherie Priest

#51. Me, I like my woman so tough grown men whimper and hide when they see her coming their way.

Nalini Singh

#52. He's a woman.
He's a grown woman
He's a old woman.

Patrick Ness

#53. Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

Olivia Sudjic

#54. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!

Amy Poehler

#55. A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#56. My fans have grown up with me and seen my life change over the years, from a young girl with 'Goodies' to a full-grown woman and now mom.

Ciara

#57. He felt that he had always been there, among the apple trees, watching for the woman in the tower to come to her window. Seasons may have passed, years may have grown green on the bough, then withered and fallen, but he would stand there and wait for a chance to keep a promise he had made.

Ava Zavora

#58. The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses.

Kate Morton

#59. A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

Billy Childish

#60. That's the thing," said Gat. "Everyone's always asking Harris about everything. Why should a grown woman have to ask her father to approve her wedding?

E. Lockhart

#61. A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

William Shakespeare

#62. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.

Donna Brazile

#63. Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.
Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?
Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.

Courtney Milan

#64. He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.

Dan Chaon

#65. Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Dodie Smith

#66. When I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I've been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don't jump the gun and throw anything out there.

Adrienne Bailon

#67. There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then.

Toni Sorenson

#68. I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

Leighton Meester

#69. The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything - or nothing.

Pearl S. Buck

#70. As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

Ree Drummond

#71. It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.

Helen Simonson

#72. I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

Jeannette Walls

#73. She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to stablish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#74. I'm not a little sheep who's wandered from her ewe. I am a grown woman!

Mary Ellis

#75. There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.

Edward Abbey

#76. The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.

George R R Martin

#77. To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

Annette Bening

#78. I'm not a child," Eliza argued with the closed double doors. "I'm a grown woman. With accomplishments and bosoms and everything.

Tessa Dare

#79. I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Amy Bloom

#80. When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

Loleatta Holloway

#81. It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

Saffron Burrows

#82. I? Why hadn't I trusted myself? Because I'd trusted the woman across the street instead, that's why. That grown up. That Assistant Principal. So in a way, it had been my fault. But in another way, not. But no matter whose fault it was, I still had bruises on my arms. And now, memories I didn't want.

Kristen D. Randle

#83. Woman, your heart is a mapless maze. Could I bottle confusion and drink it a thousand years, I could not confound myself so much as you do between waking and breakfast. You are grown so devious that serpents would applaud your passage, would the gods but give them hands.

Scott Lynch