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Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.
Denise Bidot
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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Arnold Haultain
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
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I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
Eva Longoria
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I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.
Eileen Collins
7.
Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy...
Mariska Hargitay
8.
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun!
Shania Twain
10.
In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
Carole King
13.
Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!
Cecile Richards
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Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.
Patti Smith
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The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.
Madonna Ciccone
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
Marissa Mayer
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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Emma Thompson
18.
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
Charlize Theron
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We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.
Peggy Fleming
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And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.
Ginni Rometty
22.
It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.
Rachel Bloom
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Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
Eve Arnold
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Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person.
Mildred H. McAfee
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
Mary Wortley Montagu
32.
I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Norah Vincent
33.
I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.
Shirley Polykoff
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
Madeleine Albright
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It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.
Dana Bash
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
Margaret Thatcher
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar Gracian
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one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis
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I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.
Eva Mendes
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I like being a woman and having a womanly body.
Jennie Garth
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It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara
David Eddings
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I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.
Jerusha Hess
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Don't be ashamed of being a woman and don't be ashamed to be an accomplished woman.
Marion Vernoux
47.
In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
Margaret Thatcher
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand
49.
The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
Zoe Saldana
50.
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
Martha Wainwright