434 Quotes About Womanhood
- Author Salma Deera
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you will rise.and are you less of a woman for this? nowhat is woman?woman is this—enduring.listen girl, you will survive this–you will.but what fool said you had to do it silently?here is a tip—scream
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- Author Gift Gugu Mona
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Womanhood should be celebrated. Being a woman must not be seen as a weakness.
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- Author Lena Dunham
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Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It's something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve.
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- Author Andrew Sean Greer
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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
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- Author Elisabeth Elliot
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What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?
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- Author Jan Moran
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Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was so… He paused, searching for words. So sophisticated, so self-assured.
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- Author Rachel Held Evans
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As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
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- Author Durga Chew-Bose
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Women [who are] sick with anitch, dissatisfied to the point of dancing alone in their homes to music that isn’t so much music but dull pain with a tune. Women with demands that are mysterious even to themselves. Women who are runaways in their own kitchens. Women who are in no rush to respond to a world that’s only conceived them as its consequence. Who experience deep movement by playing air piano. Who are wind-oriented.
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- Author Durga Chew-Bose
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Tell a woman she is beautiful, and she might—it’s very possible—feellike a fool. Roses die quick. They will do.The girl you want does not exist.The girl you want does exist.But not like that. And not like that. Or like that. Or like that.She is sitting across from you, looking just beyond you—at herself.
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