Helmut Newton Quotes

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

At the end of the day I'm just Linda, and Linda is a single professional woman, and a lot of women can relate to what I talk about.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

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.

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

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

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.