37 Quotes About Being-a-woman

I am a woman regardless if I am the woman you think I should be.

My whole life I've had to push through my own death threats. I'm a woman with fluctuating hormones and emotions. Period.

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.

In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.

I wish to be conceived and born again as a man from the sublime womb of a woman, she who gave birth to humanity, and be an offering and fruition of love to another woman, she who benevolently nurtures what it means to love, to be loved, and to be human. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Indefinable Woman: A Linguistic Thesis)

Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain form of beauty, of divinity! To know that my body can not only form and bring another human being into the world, but that I can actually feed babies with my own milk from my own breasts— that puts me in a state of awe each time I think about it. It is an honour to be a woman.

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

All the gentlemen accorded her the courtesy of standing when she entered the chamber. One second of recognition, then her gender would be completely forgotten when the discussions began.~ From The Earl, the Vow, and the Plain Jane by Cheryl Bolen

Rio: – What the hell is the point of worrying about it? I don’t see Geer or Pang or Stick moping.Jen: – No, […]. They’re all busy being men. […] We’re not men, Rio. We don’t have to be men.