Female Anxiety Quotes

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side.

Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

In school, I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are, but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat.

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.