Top 100 Quotes About Being A Woman
#1. I like being a woman and having a womanly body.
Jennie Garth
#2. I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
Eva Longoria
#3. Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.
Erin Andrews
#4. Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.
Bethenny Frankel
#5. A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. 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
#7. First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.
Ondi Timoner
#8. Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
Nicole Beharie
#9. I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
#10. Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.
Denise Bidot
#11. I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
Ellie Kemper
#12. Because you've got balls of steel.'
I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.
Cora Carmack
#13. Does she make the heavens fall?" "Yes, she pulls down everything." Molinari nodded. "It's a psionic talent she has ... it's called being a woman.
Philip K. Dick
#14. I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
Summer Glau
#15. We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
Jean Baudrillard
#16. The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential
Margaret Way
#17. Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.
Vikrmn
#18. Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.
Priyanka Bhowmick
#19. When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
John Eldredge
#20. I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out ... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.
Jim Jefferies
#21. I often think that being a woman in this world must feel like waking up every day to find that someone deleted what you wrote the day before.
Rakesh Satyal
#22. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.
Laura Levine
#23. When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar Gracian
#24. Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn't stop you from being a person.
Mildred H. McAfee
#25. It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.
Eva Mendes
#26. No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism. Like most people, I'm full of contradictions, but I also don't want to be treated like shit for being a woman.
Roxane Gay
#27. I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.
Sandra Bullock
#28. I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.
Lyn St. James
#29. As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
Maggie Q
#30. Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!
Cecile Richards
#31. There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.
Mary Pauline Lowry
#32. I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
Malin Akerman
#33. I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'
Sophia Amoruso
#34. 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
#35. Today she wasn't a mom or office worker or school volunteer. She was a confident artist. A sexual being. A woman scorned. She was a force to be reckoned with. The
Victoria Helen Stone
#36. But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.
Kiersten White
#37. Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatcher
#38. I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.
Jenna Lyons
#39. Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
Kangana Ranaut
#40. I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.
Jerusha Hess
#41. It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.
Ruth Wilson
#42. 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
#43. One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
#44. With mounting concern, I learned that having a £600 handbag is like having a crush on the Joker in Batman. You MUST do it. It is an irreducible fact of being a woman.
Caitlin Moran
#45. It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#46. I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Karin Slaughter
#47. On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
Zoe Saldana
#48. There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.
Beth Broderick
#49. I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.
Christina Hendricks
#50. There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.
Jena Malone
#51. How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.
Sofia Navarro
#52. It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.
Dana Bash
#53. The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.
Madonna Ciccone
#54. Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
Amber Riley
#55. You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
Erica Jong
#56. I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
Iris Murdoch
#57. I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.
Kerry Greenwood
#58. A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#59. There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas.
Judith Merkle Riley
#60. Just because you become a mother, doesn't mean you stop being a woman.
Nicole A. Walker
#61. Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there's no point to me being a woman if I never have children."
"Well, if that's true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick." Jettie snorted.
Molly Harper
#63. Damn there were days being a woman confused the hell out of her.- Aella
Eve Langlais
#64. Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand
#65. Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.
Julie Delpy
#66. We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
Peggy Fleming
#67. There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
Rebecca Solnit
#68. 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
#69. Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.
Hillary Clinton
#70. Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.
Jeanette Winterson
#71. I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#72. There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
Annie Leibovitz
#73. 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
#75. If women could only have more," I said longingly. "If we could have more in our own right. Being a woman at court is like forever watching a pastrycook at work in the kitchen. All those good things, and you can have nothing.
Philippa Gregory
#76. Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.
Patti Smith
#78. Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
Martha Wainwright
#79. When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
#80. I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.
Eva Mendes
#81. Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
Maelle Gavet
#83. Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy ...
Mariska Hargitay
#85. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.
Milan Kundera
#86. It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to.
Polgara
David Eddings
#87. Beautiful gay men are God's gift to women. They're like a consolation prize for ... well, for everything else about being a woman.
Meg Howrey
#88. I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
Beyonce Knowles
#89. What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#90. Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.
Sushmita Sen
#91. You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
Charlize Theron
#92. It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.
Rachel Bloom
#93. One of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#94. I love being a mother ... I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
Shelley Long
#95. I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright
#96. 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
#97. I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.
Sania Mirza
#98. Being a woman is an opportunity to be fearless and feminine, brave and beautiful, strong and sensitive all at once. As a woman you have the power to be the target and the missile in almost any situation or environment.
Michael E. Reid
#99. Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
Jessica Valenti
#100. I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.
April Bloomfield
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