Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes

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.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

Being a woman means everything to me.

One is not born, but rather becomes, 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 think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

It took me a really long time to get past all of that internalized dissociation with being female that I was being given by media.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

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

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

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 started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

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.

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

What does it mean, being a woman?