People expect you to have all the answers by the time you're 30 years old because you're a grown woman. — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
“I’m a grown woman now,” Mom said almost every morning. “Why can’t I do what I want to do?” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I'm not a child," Eliza argued with the closed double doors. "I'm a grown woman. With accomplishments and bosoms and everything.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“There would come a day, in fact, years later, when Laila would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“I knew it! I knew you'd hate my body!" She slammed her hands on her hips, marched over to the bed, and… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says,… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
I used to go to school in heels every day. I thought I was a little grown woman. — Hennessy Carolina Copy Share Image
I know my mom worked three jobs to pay $300-a-month rent. I know we shared cans of food for dinner - one… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
“Or I can stay with Colby when he comes back,” she added deliberately. She even smiled. “He’ll take care of me.” His… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Baby Girl,” I say. “I need you to remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?” She still… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore. — Karen Finerman Copy Share Image
“Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I fake-rested instead of real-rested, and then I found that I was real-tired. It feels ludicrous to be a grown woman, a… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“If you have ever felt slightly nauseous walking through an aged care facility, puckered your face against a smell, observed a grown… — Felicity Chapman Copy Share Image
“I'm not asking you to go with me. I don't want you to go with me." That's a straight-up lie, because I… — Tracey Garvis Graves Copy Share Image
