434 Quotes About Womanhood

She was a woman who knew who she was and how she had gotten there.

Perempuan adalah bumi, yang menumbuhkan padi dan singkong, tetapi juga yang akhirnya memeluk jenazah-jenazah manusia yang pernah dikandungnya dan disusuinya.

I was proud to be in America, not just because here I found my voice but because the country made me the woman I am today, a woman with a fierce voice, a woman without shame. I grew up hearing that I was stubborn, a troublemaker, hard headed, and not good enough. But I had been wise enough to look in the mirror. I liked what I was, and I said to myself, I am worthy, lovable, and good enough.

--so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts...

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

I think about the tragedies the women in my life have faced. How every time a child gets sick or a man leaves or a parent dies or a community crumbles, the women are the ones who carry on, who do what must be done for their people in the midst of their own pain. While those around them fall away, the women hold the sick and nurse the weak, put food on the table, carry their families' sadness and anger and love and hope. ... Have women been the Warriors all along?

Like a lot of girls, I became aware of the liabilities of my body early, long before I began to even look like a woman.

Lots of things happen in a woman's body, and nothing works exactly on schedule.

The woman I'm becoming cant be fucked with!