Emma McLaughlin Quotes

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

I prefer doing work that projects me as a woman and a mother.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

I'm not one of those Hollywood moms where my kid is three weeks old and I'm a size zero. I'm a real woman and I'm a working woman and a working mom.