Womanhood Quotes

• The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Freedom
  • Gifts
  • Limitations

• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Cause
  • Sink
  • Womanhood

• Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • You
  • Something
  • Womanhood

• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Woman
  • Bible
  • Ducks

• Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Womanhood
  • Priesthood
  • Exaltation

• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • High
  • Girl
  • Teach

• My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Deal
  • Identify
  • Womanhood

• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Refinement
  • American Women

• Might I add that you are just a fine specimen of womanhood?

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • Womanhood
  • Specimens

• Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Femininity
  • Womanhood
  • Pinnacle

• A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

  

  George Eliot
  • Royal
  • Womanhood
  • Rank

• Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

  

  Alison Fell
  • School
  • Womanhood
  • Rehearsing

• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Insult
  • Womanhood
  • Contraceptives

• The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Liberty
  • Corruption
  • Sanctity

• Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Grace
  • Womanhood
  • Neatness

• I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  

  Eva Figes
  • Fashion
  • Horror
  • Represents

• Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Womanhood

• Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Religion
  • God's Blessings
  • Protracted

• Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

  

  Bertha Knight Landes
  • Sex
  • Public Servants
  • Firgetting

• I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Childhood
  • Spirit
  • Sorrows

• Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Ideas
  • Womanhood

• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Life
  • Relations
  • Womanhood

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