Charlize Theron 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.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

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

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

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.

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

It's so strange how people can be judgmental when they see a pregnant woman dressed in high heels and tight dresses. Being pregnant shouldn't make you feel less of a woman, but more of a woman!

I'm a girl, and I like girly things even though I'm a tomboy also, you know?

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.