Mother Quote by Karen Sandler

“As for why... I didn't want to admit that I was female. It wasn't that I wanted to be a boy, more like I…

— Kabi Nagata

“I’d been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted…

— Marianne Williamson

“I never learned how to be a woman in this world because I didn't know what it meant to be one. What I learned…

— Elaine Alec

“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.”

— Shashi Deshpande

“It troubles me every time to think my fellow women were the ones who actually gave birth to men with attitudes as stringent as…

— Christine Lemmon

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys, not men,…

— Michael Grant

“So even if I’m getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I’m still a boy about women. It’s confusing, but…

— Daniel Keyes

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis