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What do you love about being a woman (or what do you love about women)?

Started by Daniel Gibbons · 7 months ago

“When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman” - Betty Friedan

Carrie says: I love that woman understand what it’s like to be a woman. Love the duality of being a woman: strong and vulnerable, r ... Continue reading »

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  • Sarah Salway

    7 months ago

    I love the way women can look at each other sometimes and laugh together - without having to explain - even when we're strangers. And I love how many amazing women there are out there to enjoy as role models. (And I love this question!)
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  • lifecoachsandy

    7 months ago

    I agree with Carrie about the duality of women, and the appeal of that for me is that we can be so whole. I refuse to be a Stepford wife, and take pride in choosing to be financially savvy, an independent entrepreneur, a loving and responsibility-generating mom, and an artist. People expect artists, and especially female artists, to be air heads and irresponsible. I love proving them wrong!
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  • Jess

    7 months ago

    Our bodies look nicer naked (everyone knows it's true haha). We can just relate to each other so easily and that's amazing.
    We're all so powerful, physically, mentally and emotionally. We can have BIRTH! And while I've never experienced that, I realize how friggin' HUGE that is!
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  • fabuleuxparis

    7 months ago

    Everything! I love being a woman. Feminine clothes, perfume, hair. The color pink! Being able to be super smart and giggle too! Being emotionally strong, but still allowed to cry or feel things. Women have common bonds amongst eachother that men often do not. I love being a woman and I love being around other women. Sisterhood is powerful.

    Hugs to all the other women. You are all beautiful in my eyes!

    Fashionable Fun
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  • JulieG

    7 months ago

    I love that there are no social pressures to hide our emotions. Men, I think, have a hard time when they want to display anything but "mandated, manly" emotions. As women, no one bats an eye if I feel a need to shed a tear now and then. (Well, except maybe at work.)
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  • Suzyn

    7 months ago

    Sorry - can't say I agree with you there. Did you see the brou-ha-ha when Hillary Clinton DARED to shed a tear on the campaign trail???
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  • JulieG

    7 months ago

    Admittedly, there's something of a double-standard when it comes to a) public figures, and b) work. But I think, on the whole, women are more comfortable and socially permitted to express emotion than man. Little boys are taught very early on that "men don't cry." Little girls are rarely told "women don't cry."
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  • DanielleLaPorte

    7 months ago

    there is definitely a strange standard here. Emotionality is okay accept in terms of work. Tho' for men and work, anger - one of the strongest emotions there is - is often a.o.k.
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  • JulieG

    7 months ago

    True, though anger is often seen as a "manly man's" emotion.

    I think work in general is supposed to be a more emotionless state (though this doesn't always happen in practice).
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  • Linda Borland-Fitzgerald

    7 months ago

    The double standard is alive and well AND that anger thing being the status quo for men in the work place?.. what do you suppose the label would be for women who rage at the office or in the board room? Yup, that's right!
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  • freestyle

    1 month ago

    Hi Danielle, this is Emma, I truly agree with you here, even i have observed that many a times.
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  • kim

    7 months ago

    I love that my body is called by the moon and connected to ocean tides. I love that I can take care of others and be taken care of, and I love the grace that radiates from so many women despite the attempts of others and life itself to pull them apart limb by limb!
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  • textimage

    7 months ago

    The intimacy in the relationships we make. As a woman, I feel like I can safely, spiritedly, vulnerably, dive-in... and really get into it with "my girls". This is probably a result of societal mores, but these shared understandings about behaviour I believe are inspired by what is essential: our desire to cultivate connection.
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  • Traci

    7 months ago

    I completely agree. The best thing about being a woman is the connection with other women. Not to discount my relationships with men...there's just something different and spiritual about a deep female-female connection. I can't explain it, which is part of its beauty.
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  • Suzyn

    7 months ago

    I love the fact that this body carried my babies.
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  • Tabitha

    7 months ago

    Our intuition and our willingness to follow our hearts. The world would be a colder, harsher place if not for us.
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  • Linda Borland-Fitzgerald

    7 months ago

    Our creativity, softness, intuition, feistiness, our ability to create life and the vulnerability that belies the strength beneath
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  • Storyteller

    7 months ago

    I am shelter. I am able to invite my lover inside of me where it is warm. I am home. I have life within me, I can make milk for newborns. This amazes me. I am curves and poetry and five senses plus six. I am a creator like my Creator. Being a woman is the greatest gift God has given me and I am so thankful.
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  • Kristen

    7 months ago

    This is so beautiful.....we were God given such an amazing purpose....I think we neglect this sometimes.
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  • Alison

    7 months ago

    Too right. Its sad, it seems that many of us feel ashamed, even when we shouldn't.
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  • Steve Harvey

    7 months ago

    I like the fact women know things we (men) don't...something instinctual we can't pick up on...keeps us in a state of mystery - something the ego needs for balance. And yes to Carrie's words - the dichotomy of ruthlessness and compassion, that's never boring!

    I like to be schooled sometimes (sometimes I said!) and some women have my number, every time. I like that. Adds to my humility.

    And yes D...werd on high heel boots!

    Skin. Legs. Grace. Elegance. Intuition. The walk and way of a woman on a mission.
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  • candylee

    7 months ago

    Our sense of intuition, makeup, allowance to be frivolous, and a girls night out with friends, full of dessert, gossip, laughter, and cocktails!
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  • Natasha L

    7 months ago

    So much has already been said. Overall what I love is this feeling that you hold some great secret. Hard to explain. A twinkle in the eye.
    I love how capable women are. I recognize this especially in women older than myself (being 28). I'm always in awe of how older women - mother's generation, grandmother's generation - can do the biggest tasks (what may seem big to my generation) with such ease and speed - whipping up a batch of soup, packing up a house, cleaning anything...they've just got it down and it's no. big. thing. (insert finger snaps here). They don't complain they just get it done and do it well.
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  • Cobby

    7 months ago

    Maya Angelou said it best in her poem Phenomenal Woman:

    PHENOMENAL WOMAN
    by Maya Angelou

    Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
    I'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion size
    But when I start to tell them
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips
    The stride of my steps
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally
    Phenomenal woman
    That's me.

    I walk into a room
    Just as cool as you please
    And to a man
    The fellows stand or
    Fall down on their knees
    Then they swarm around me
    A hive of honey bees.
    I say
    It's the fire in my eyes
    And the flash of my teeth
    The swing of my waist
    And the joy in my feet.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally
    Phenomenal woman
    That's me.

    Men themselves have wondered
    What they see in me
    They try so much
    But they can't touch
    My inner mystery.
    When I try to show them
    They say they still can't see.
    I say
    It's in the arch of my back
    The sun of my smile
    The ride of my breasts
    The grace of my style.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally
    Phenomenal woman
    That's me.

    Now you understand
    Just why my head's not bowed
    I don't shout or jump about
    Or have to talk real loud
    When you see me passing
    It ought to make you proud.
    I say
    It's in the click of my heels
    The bend of my hair
    The palm of my hand
    The need for my care.
    'Cause I'm a woman
    Phenomenally
    Phenomenal woman
    That's me.
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  • Kristen

    7 months ago

    I love how we can change the world by nurturing each child who comes in to our lives.
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  • Ameda

    4 months ago

    I love being called Mom! only a women has this God given name so that's the best part being a woman!
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  • Übergrössen Mode

    2 months ago

    your blog post is really inspiring
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