
“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.”
Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.”
"Brilliant Disguise"
Song lyrics, Tunnel Of Love (1987)
“All my life I was very deprived, I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide”
Whoops!
"My Name Is" (Track 2).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.”
Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975).
“Petals floating by, Drift through my woman’s hand, As she remembers me.”
Source: Startide Rising (1983), Chapter 103 (p. 418)
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
“I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.”
Amaze
Verses (1915)