37 Quotes About Being-a-woman

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

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.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

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.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.