434 Quotes About Womanhood

If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas.

When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires.

And I feel your empty hands on meAnd I want to set them on fire.

Expose Yourself to True Friendship for It Heals, encourages and lifts you higher.

If I mistake not, a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion.

To be a woman is toharness the power ofthe earth below you,sky above you, andfire within you.

We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. Oh, you can’t see it now—our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That’s what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it’s from and where it’ll return. But we were girls once, which is to say, we have all loved an ain’t-shit man.

I believe you do not deserve words like “anti-wrinkle” and “anti-aging.” Your experience as a woman is much too rich to be rewritten in favor of artificial youthfulness.

Old age had distilled her down to her essence.