34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? Barbara Streisand

The thing women have yet to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it. Roseanne Barr

People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do. Joan Jett

Bitches get stuff done. Tina Fey

I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. Whitney Houston

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” Clare Boothe Luce

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. Georgia O’Keeffe

People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me. Princess Diana

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. Ambrose Bierce

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. Farrah Fawcett

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. Rosalind Russell

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. Natalie Portman

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. Cindy Crawford

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. Barbara Streisand

I married beneath me – all women do. Nancy Astor

I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. Gloria Steinem

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships. Gilda Radner

The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. Anita Loos

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem

A wise woman likes but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe and leaves before she is left. Marilyn Monroe

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, “I’m enough.” Anna Quindlen

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t. Audre Lorde

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. Barbara de Angelis

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. Charlize Theron

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. Gail Sheely

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling. Louisa May Alcott

Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting. Ellen Glasgow

I’m tough. I’m ambitious. I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, I’m OK with that. Madonna

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. Phyllis Diller

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. Erma Bombeck