- Love
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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
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aaliyah revolutionized what it was to be a young black woman in America. She made it OK to be a nerd and to be a tomboy. She made it OK to wear leather and chains. She was the first black girl with an ombre. She was so far ahead of everything and everyone. It was just who she was. She was an innovator, but she didn't even realize it.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020