Top 100 Born Woman Quotes
#1. It seems to me if an anointed king can be set aside, a serf-born woman can marry a baron's son. As rebellions against God's lawful order go, ours will be a small one.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#2. To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
#3. There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Bruce Jenner
#4. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
#6. He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl.
'How do I look?'
'Like the ugliest shanky girl I've ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.'
'Thanks.
James Dashner
#7. To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
Friedrich Schiller
#8. I was born a strong, powerful woman, but was raised to be a victim.
Sharon Law Tucker
#9. There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
#10. The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
Abdu'l- Baha
#12. Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
Charles Bukowski
#13. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith
#14. The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.
Stefan Zweig
#15. The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
#16. We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.
Robert Mugabe
#17. The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Guru Nanak
#18. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Margaret Fuller
#19. Finally, realization dawned.
I belonged to Luke. I was Luke's woman.
Hell, I had probably been born to be Luke's woman (if you believed that kind of shit).
Kristen Ashley
#20. In a cruel manner of speaking, this young woman may well have lost her head before she was born; it is certainly not on her shoulders at this stage of the game.
J.D. Salinger
#22. I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?
Bernard Cornwell
#23. I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and I carried it all through my years. I'm 26 now, and I'm still that person. I think every woman needs to have that self-love.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#24. There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.
Terry Tempest Williams
#25. My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#26. I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
Maurice Sendak
#27. IF ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#28. No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
Patrick O'Brian
#29. A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'
Conan O'Brien
#30. Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.
George R R Martin
#31. She did not look like my sister, she did not look like any mortal woman at all. She carried herself as if she were the greatest queen that had ever been born. We
Philippa Gregory
#32. A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.
Sharon Kay Penman
#33. I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Mary Cheney
#34. When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?
Shahla Khan
#35. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#36. Wherever you were born and whatever you did, pool hustler, showgirl, tonight, you were a rancher's woman and just like you, when you do somethin', you're the best there is.
Kristen Ashley
#37. I was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.
Thalia
#38. A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
Herman Melville
#39. Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.
Gloria Steinem
#40. PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
Indra Nooyi
#41. For soul mates to be born in different centuries was one thing. To be immortal and meet the one woman meant to be yours and not to be able to claim her was more punishment than any man should have to endure.
Dawn Marie Hamilton
#42. That beautiful mild woman for whose sake
There's many a one shall find out all heartache
On finding that her voice is sweet and low
Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know-
Although they do not talk of it at school -
That we must labor to be beautiful.
W.B.Yeats
#43. When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
Marianne Williamson
#44. Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Geoffrey Beene
#45. I thought women liked to be thought strange and mysterious." "No, they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel.
Harper Lee
#46. Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
Martin Luther
#47. If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.
Dorothy Hamill
#48. Look at me,' said Miss Havisham. 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?
Charles Dickens
#49. To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."
Anthony De Mello
#52. Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.
Loretta Young
#53. Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.
James Joyce
#54. Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.
Alberto Villoldo
#55. Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
Andy Stanley
#56. So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
Andrew Kreisberg
#57. Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
Robert Frost
#58. Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.
Aaron Schock
#59. She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
C.S. Harris
#60. I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.
Kristina Schroder
#61. No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer
#62. When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
Ingrid Michaelson
#63. The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.
Mary C. Ames
#64. If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.
Janusz Korczak
#66. A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#67. The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
Oscar De La Renta
#68. You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.
Euripides
#69. My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.
Judy Gold
#70. Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.
Ingrid Weir
#71. I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.
Brent Weeks
#72. With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.
Elizabeth Prioleau
#73. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
Milan Kundera
#74. How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.
Christopher Titus
#75. I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.
Vandana Shiva
#76. You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.
RuPaul
#77. I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman ... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
Trevor Noah
#78. A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself
Caitlin Moran
#79. I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.
Judy LaMarsh
#80. My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
Twyla Tharp
#81. man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love. I
Elie Wiesel
#82. Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again.
Toni Sorenson
#83. Characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
Milan Kundera
#84. I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born ... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi ... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me ...
Masashi Kishimoto
#85. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.
Ruby Rose
#86. At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman
Peter Adejimi
#87. Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H.L. Mencken
#88. I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.
Suzanne Somers
#89. Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#90. He'd lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she'd been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#91. The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
Alfred De Musset
#92. We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
#93. I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people.
James A. Michener
#94. For untold ages the Indian race had not used family names. A new-born child was given a brand-new name. Blue-Star Woman was proud to write her name for which she would not be required to substitute another's upon her marriage, as is the custom of civilized peoples.
Zitkala-Sa
#95. This woman was so ugly and stupid, she probably never should have been born. And yet Wait was the second person to have married her.
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. When Simone de Beauvoir said, "One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it. In
Caitlin Moran
#97. Some are born to play it safe
Others are born to live it wild.
Nikki Rowe
#98. Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
Andrea Dworkin
#100. Every man or woman is born to be a Hero!
Avijeet Das
