Modern Womanhood Quotes

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway.