- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020