Womanhood Quotes

101 Womanhood quotes by 89 unique authors

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood… — Mary McLeod Bethune
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and… — Maria Weston Chapman
I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from… — Robert D. Hales
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder… — John Harvey Kellogg
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into… — Emma Goldman
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant… — James Freeman Clarke
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon… — Rachel Held Evans
Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be virtuous lovely praiseworthy… — Elaine S. Dalton
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. — Margaret Sanger
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to… — Janet Mock
Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else. — Steven Morrissey
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants. — Bertha Knight Landes
Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned hogs and gutted… — Phil Robertson
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood… — Gerald Massey
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm
Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This… — Janet Mock

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