Womanhood Quotes
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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
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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
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Might I add that you are just a fine specimen of womanhood?
Mike Inez
Black Label Society
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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
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A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal.
George Eliot
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
Honore de Balzac
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
Viola Davis
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Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
Bertha Knight Landes
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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