Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.

Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

We're complicated women.

When I'm not working out, it's important to me to express the creative, girly side of my personality.

Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.

Art is feminine.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own. It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

I definitely wanted to be a woman and be treated as an adult, I wasn't interested in being young at all.

I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

Being a woman means everything to me.

Every woman has different needs and wants.

I feel like women are so specific and special, that there's no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you're going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.