434 Quotes About Womanhood

I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.

Anytime we worked a quilt, it was the thing to do to set out an empty chair. It was for the missing woman. The friend who might call, just as you'd sat to quilt, and who might bring a loaf of bread, lend a hand, do a square....There are times I miss the things I haven't done in my life. The things that Savannah is so good at doing, like taking up the empty chair.

Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

It's hard to live in a man's world when you are not the only woman in it

If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man

She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I’d be their pawn. She was their queen.

He say to tell the truth, Shug act more manly than most men. I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Women are not tools, strong women move mountain. Treat them with respect the way you would treat your president, father, daughter, son, sister or mom. Because without them humanity perish.