
“I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 196
“I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.”
Karen Blixen book Last Tales
"The Cardinal's Third Tale"
Last Tales (1957)
“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
written in her Journal, 1905
Quote of Werefkin's Journal, 1905; in Briefe an einen Unbekannten, ed. Clemens Weiler, Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont, 1960, p. 50
1895 - 1905
“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon
Drugs and Governments
Focus Fourteen
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“I may have a beard, and manly limbs and body, yet confined by these, I am and remain a woman”
Sunt mihi barba maris, artus, corpusque virile, His inclusa quidem. Sed sum maneoque puella
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights
Inclusa (1864), quoted in: Hubert C. Kennedy (1988), Ulrichs: the life and works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, p. 56
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984