- 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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really want to do roles that have some substance, and I hope writers give us that importance. I can't alone stand up and demand roles like that. It's a collective thing. Writers have to believe in heroines and understand that there's more to a woman than just her curves. It's not that they can't do it. They just choose not to.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
- Nov 07, 2020
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020