Woman Quotes by Maya Angelou

14 Woman quotes by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou’s 14 lines celebrate women with her signature lyrical strength, offering empowering snapshots that resonate across generations.

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Being a woman is hard work.

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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

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A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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I am a woman phenomenally, phenonomenal woman that's me!

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“All my ways of being are musical and mysterious. Yet I embrace you openly. Ripe with expectancy.”

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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is…

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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at…

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it -…

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All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman,…

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The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.…

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“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start…

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You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…

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