#woman

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#hell #lot #more #most #mother

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#i #number #out #playing #second

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#brown #cause #even #hear #her

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #defined #female #human #human being

One is not born a woman, but becomes one. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#born #woman

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#independence #love #men #say #second

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#anyone #i #intrude #life #like

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#being #blossom #girl #go #i