Being A Woman Quotes

Being a woman is really crap.

It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.

I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

South Pacific - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during South Pacific, I went from being a girl to being a woman.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

Latin women enjoy being women more than other women.

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Don't be ashamed of being a woman and don't be ashamed to be an accomplished woman.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.