Top 100 Be A Woman Quotes
#1. I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#2. I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
Eve Arnold
#3. I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
Kent McCord
#4. So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
Andrew Sean Greer
#5. Both of us on the cusp of adulthood, and this is how my brother and I understood what it meant to be a woman: working, dour, full of worry. What it meant to be a man: resentful, angry, wanting life to be everything but what it was.
Jesmyn Ward
#6. NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian.
Pat Roberts
#7. Somewhere in the state of Montana there had to be a woman he wanted to date more than once. Hell, he might propose on the second date if things ever got that far. All he had to do was find her.
Melissa McClone
#8. A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.
Robin Williams
#9. In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.
Craig Bruce
#10. Be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.
Nikki Rowe
#11. I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman.
Jody Hedlund
#13. In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
Elisabeth Elliot
#14. I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
Hank Azaria
#15. 101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:
We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.
Summersdale Publishers
#16. Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.
Laura Benanti
#17. There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#18. If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.
Ryan Stiles
#19. I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.
Lauren Kate
#20. To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#21. It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
Cecile Richards
#22. Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#23. The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman.
Dianna Skowera
#24. It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.
Grace Meng
#25. And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
Lisa See
#26. You can be a girl at any age, you know. Girls at forty. Girls at fifty. There's a kind of flightiness to them, just like how a man at forty can have the impatience and belligerence of a five-year-old boy. But you can also be a woman at any age.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#27. What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be
let me be a woman?
Elisabeth Elliot
#28. What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?
Laurie Viera Rigler
#29. God, he loved being a bloke. He loved it so much. He wouldn't be a woman for all the money in the world.
Dave Franklin
#30. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be a woman working in America. It looks very different to be a working woman in other places in the world.
Ivanka Trump
#31. We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.
Miriam Schapiro
#32. One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
Madeleine Albright
#33. I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya Angelou
#34. Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.
Steven James
#35. She would never be the best Janissary, because she would never be a Janissary. She could never be powerful on her own, because she would always be a woman.
Kiersten White
#36. If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Boris Pasternak
#37. I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
Anita Diamant
#38. Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Ernestine Rose
#39. Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H.L. Mencken
#40. I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.
Nicole Beharie
#41. If you were writing poetry it was somewhat safer to be a woman than a man.
Alice Munro
#42. Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
Yann Martel
#43. As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
Gwendoline Christie
#44. Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,
Marissa Mayer
#45. It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs
Eva Mendes
#46. There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#47. She's not just a Porsche. She's a Porsche nine-one-one GT-three.
There's a difference.Let me guess, it's the love of your life?" I said, quoting Travis'
statement about his motorcycle.
"No, it's a car. The love of my life will be a woman with my last name.
Jamie McGuire
#48. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
#49. I'm not saying that if you're working at home, raising a family, that's not work. I want to disrupt the narrative around what it means to be a woman who works. The whole point of my brand is that women should be architecting the lives they want to live.
Ivanka Trump
#50. Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
Toni Morrison
#51. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.
Joseph Delaney
#52. I've always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph - a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind!
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#53. I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
Lori Petty
#54. Genya would have to keep her face hidden, but she didn't seem to mind. She'd wrapped her shawl around her head and declared, 'I shall be a woman of mystery.' I reminded her not to be too intriguing.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women.
Toni Morrison
#56. 101 Reason why its its great to be a woman : Since the advent of feminism, we can publicly ogle male bodies and not be called sexist. If a man indulges in this behavior over a picture of naked woman, he is a sexist pig, and recompense must be demanded for this slight on womankind.
Summersdale Publishers
#57. I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#59. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Walt Whitman
#60. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
Charlize Theron
#61. By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
Rachel Hunter
#62. Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.
Reed Morano
#63. Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game.
Cammi Granato
#64. We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
Martin Luther
#65. I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.
Miranda Kerr
#67. There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#68. [Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
Caryl Churchill
#70. I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
Mary MacLane
#71. ... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ...
Louisa May Alcott
#72. You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
Sally Hawkins
#73. Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
Janet Montgomery
#74. Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.
Alison Owen
#75. A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.
M. Carey Thomas
#76. I'd love to be a woman for one day of my life ... God ... I would be drunk with power.
Bill Engvall
#77. We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.
Mandy Moore
#78. I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
Kathryn Harrison
#79. How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
Golda Meir
#80. Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
Michelle Franklin
#81. No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.
Winston Graham
#82. My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
#83. A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.
Tracey Emin
#84. People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.
Marissa Mayer
#85. This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy.
Stephen Crane
#86. We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#87. Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
Donatella Versace
#89. Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.
Janelle Monae
#90. With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.
Alison Owen
#91. We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.
Tony Dungy
#92. The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.
George MacDonald
#93. In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
Esther Duflo
#94. That was the last time I saw Carol. I didn't want to be told I had to be a woman. What I wanted from her was the mystery to a solution.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#95. I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
Pete Townshend
#96. No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.
Steve Martin
#97. I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.
Linda Dillow
#98. Jean Railla puts it even more bluntly: Workplaces are still very sexist
it's hard to be a woman in the workplace.
Emily Matchar
#99. You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
Caitlin Moran
#100. I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!
John Mayer
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