45 Quotes About Being a Woman

Being extraordinary and living an extraordinary life all boil down to the choices we make. These quotes about being a woman remind us that there is a power in who we are.

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.”

“A woman can keep one secret – the secret of her age.”

“A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“A woman is rarely up to date on the subject of her age.”

“A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.”

“A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.”

“All is possible to woman, for woman alone may make herself impossible.”

“Being a grown-up woman doesn’t mean you can’t look beautiful, individual and different.”

“Being a lady is an attitude.”

“Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

“Being a woman is hard work.”

“Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.”

“Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly.”

“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

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

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.”

“If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted – there is practically nothing she can’t do.”

“If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she’ll tell you she looks worse.”

“It is hard to be a woman. You must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a young girl, and work like a horse.”

“It’s simple. Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

“No woman should ever perceive herself as inferior to a man, because there is absolutely nothing inferior about child bearing and upbringing.”

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”

“The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.”

“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”

“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”

“The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.”

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

“There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.”

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

“Two women can’t share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It’s got to be one woman’s kitchen.”

“When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.”

“When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends up blocking his retreat.”

“Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.”

“Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand.”

“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.”

“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Woman must continue to educate and excel professionally so they can fill in for the jobs of tomorrow.