Female Struggles Quotes

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

It's very difficult to be a woman in any industry.

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

I want 'Scars to Your Beautiful' to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it's me, it's you - it's every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Being a woman is really crap.

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.

As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the experience of a young woman and the challenges and turbulence we go through. All we had were teenage magazines like 'Cosmopolitan,' which are very one-sided and show an objectified view of women.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

It's exhausting being a woman.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

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.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.