Quotes on Being A Woman

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.