434 Quotes About Womanhood

You want to know what a woman is thinking, ask a woman. Simple!

Here in Africa mankind was born. And it was a woman

It’s one thing to be young, cherub-faced, straight woman doing and saying things that make people uncomfortable. It’s quite another – and far riskier – to do those same things in a body that is not white, straight, not slender, not young, or not American.

It’s no wonder we have such mixed feelings about these women: they’re constant reminders of the chasm between what we think we believe and how we actually behave.

Every moment in a woman's life was a deal, a deal for her body: first for its blooming and then for its wilting; first for her bleeding and then for her virginity and then for her bearing (counting only the sons) and for her widowing.

Curves and fat and rolls are a colossal ‘fuck you’ to the patriarchy – our accidental rebellion.

Women endure because we aren’t given any other choice.

Womanhood doesn’t have to be this twisted competition.

What else is as beautiful as a woman?