434 Quotes About Womanhood

I avoid looking at my body, not so much because it’s shameful or immodest but because I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.

If we say we are scared, it is understandable and easy for others who can focus on what we, as individuals, can do to avoid feeling fear, instead of what they, communally, can do to stem threats.

All the gentlemen accorded her the courtesy of standing when she entered the chamber. One second of recognition, then her gender would be completely forgotten when the discussions began.~ From The Earl, the Vow, and the Plain Jane by Cheryl Bolen

Such forced incarceration of womanhood is a form of female infanticide.

No wonder men did not want women to wear bloomers. What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!

Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject.

Courageous hearts weren't banned from the breast of women.

Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be free.

The moon that rises within a woman doesn't follow the same calendar as the one in the sky.