434 Quotes About Womanhood

I was no soldier, only girlwithout a mother or the sense to understand this world without her.

Improving maternal outcomes means valuing women not only as reproductive engines but also as human beings - something that is still, quite apparently, a problem.

After all, what kind of woman isn't filled with boundless joy at the thought of a baby that will, by some people's genuine estimation, rationalize her existence?

What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry. But as Gunther explained, 'Society does not like to hear from us castaway mothers.

You don't have to be a mother to experience mother-shame. Society views womanhood and motherhood as inextricably bound, therefore our value as women is often determined by where we are in relation to our roles as mothers or potential mothers.

A Mother Has the Best of all Smiles; She is a Wonderful Friend, Lover & Adviser.

And listen to me love, when a woman risks her place, her very life to speak a truth the world despises? Believe her. Always.

To be a woman is to be warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you.

Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?