Becoming Quote by Anonymous

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

— Simone de Beauvoir

My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition…

— Lauren Fleshman

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's…

— Gloria Steinem

“Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create a mask of makeup that is intended to “fix”…

— Alyscia Cunningham

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we…

— Marianne Williamson

“The norms of femininity suppress the body potential of women. We grow up learning that the feminine body is soft, not muscular, passive, incapable,…

— Iris Young

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a…

— Jane Alison

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

— Jayne Mansfield

“For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can be an…

— Ellen Bass

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

— William Moulton Marston

I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the…

— Sheila Kelley