Quotes About Becoming A Woman

#1. Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

Elizabeth George

#2. I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. Besides, adulthood is never something girls grow into. It is something they have thrust upon them, menstruation being only the first of many two-edged swords subsumed under the rubric "becoming a woman," all of them occasions to stay home from school and weep.

Nell Zink

#4. -just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

V.C. Andrews

#5. I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast - I was becoming typical.

Lorrie Moore

#6. I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Eddie Izzard

#7. Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Caitlin Flanagan

#8. When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and the mind of a growing human can be expected to revolt against becoming a woman. And thus, perhaps, alter someone for good.

Jenny Nordberg

#9. There's so much to becoming a woman.

Michael Rosenbaum

#10. As with winning the lottery, or becoming famous - there is no manual for becoming a woman,

Caitlin Moran

#11. People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

Maria Bello

#12. My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Audrey Hepburn

#13. Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

Camille Paglia

#14. The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Jan Morris

#15. Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

John Mason Brown

#16. 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

#17. I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

Eric Dane

#18. I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

C.S. Woolley

#19. A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

George Gordon Byron

#20. 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

#21. I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

Natsuo Kirino

#22. I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

Kathleen Hanna

#23. The Lord Himself is the one standard of conduct and character in the New Testament. People do not object to a man or a woman becoming outwardly holy, but they do object to his or her becoming a personal devotee of Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#24. Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#25. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man ... stops learning at fourteen or so.

Edward P. Jones

#26. No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Knut Hamsun

#27. Aren't you ready to experience the emotional side of a D/s relationship? For a real taste I suggest On Becoming His - one woman's emotional journey into being owned.

Cassandre Dayne

#28. Hillary Clinton made history becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. She's done so even as many Americans say they don't trust her. Her close friends and family say there's a disconnect between the Hillary Clinton that they know and the one the rest of American knows.

Audie Cornish

#29. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat.

Amy Tan

#30. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

Jennifer Donnelly

#31. His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.

Kate Chopin

#32. I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That's cool. But, I really don't get how there's only two choices. There's no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don't get it.

Kate Bornstein

#33. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.

George Eliot

#34. I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger.

Megan Miranda

#35. Who says there can't be more than one very attractive woman on a show without it becoming CHARLIE'S ANGELS?

Loni Anderson

#36. If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

Joshua Harris

#38. A few poetic regrets, if adroitly placed, are as becoming to a woman as gossamer hair in the moonlight. What

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#39. When you found a woman who wanted to get up close and personal with your inner caveman on a long-term basis, you had to be her everything, because you were demanding that of her. You had to commit to becoming so attuned to every little shade and shift in her moods that she could hide nothing.

Eden Connor

#40. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.

Kaoru Tada

#41. I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.

Glen Cook

#42. Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

Bill Plotkin

#43. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.

Justin Buzzard

#44. Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice.

Charlotte Bronte

#45. It is [every woman's] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.

Lillie Langtry

#46. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#47. Stephanie Robson, baby blue, my best friend and the woman with my heart. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" I take a moment to compose myself. "Will you marry me?

Karina Halle

#48. A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an empowered, fulfilled woman on your way to even greater empowerment and fulfillment.

Ali Binazir

#49. It's not as important what a woman is as what she's becoming

Linda Dillow

#50. When you were a little girl, Madam ... was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

Andrew Sean Greer

#51. A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Weili Dai

#52. Change your undergarments every day. This very basic activity is the first step in becoming a fashionable young woman.

Novala Takemoto