MO Quotes

There's so much to becoming a woman.

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.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

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

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

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

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I still feel like a girl. I don't quite feel like a woman. I'll probably be 90 and feel like, 'Not a woman yet!'

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

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.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

What does it mean, being a woman?