Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 28 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Woman in Me book by Britney Spears. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Woman in Me Quotes
- Disagreeing with a parent was never permitted in my house. No matter how bad it got, there was an understanding to stay mute, and if I didn’t, there were consequences.
- Singing is magic. When I sing, I own who I am. I can communicate purely. When you sing you stop using the language of “Hi, how are you…” You’re able to say things that are much more profound. Singing takes me to a mystical place where language doesn’t matter anymore, where anything is possible.
- Singing took me into the presence of the divine. As long as I was singing, I was half outside the world.
- I wanted to live inside my dreams, my wonderful fictitious world, and never think about reality if I could help it. Singing bridged reality and fantasy, the world I was living in and the world that I desperately wanted to inhabit.
- I was a little girl with big dreams. I wanted to be a star like Madonna, Dolly Parton, or Whitney Houston. I had simpler dreams, too, dreams that seemed even harder to achieve and that felt too ambitious to say out loud: I want my dad to stop drinking. I want my mom to stop yelling. I want everyone to be okay.
- Onstage, I was like a basketball player driving down the court. I had ball sense, street sense. I was fearless. I knew when to take my shots.
- When you’re successful at something, there’s a lot of pressure to keep right on doing it, even if you’re not enjoying it anymore.
- I’ve always been almost disturbingly empathic. What people are feeling in Nebraska, I can subconsciously feel even though I’m thousands of miles away. Sometimes women’s periods sync up; I feel like my emotions are always syncing up with those around me. I don’t know what hippie word you want to use for it – cosmic consciousness, intuition, psychic connection. All I know is that, 100 percent, I can feel the energy of other people. I can’t help but take it in.
- There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.
- I feel like a lot of women – and this is definitely true of me – can be as strong as they want to be, can play this powerful role, but at the end of the day, after we’ve done our work and made our money and taken care of everyone else, we want someone to hold us tight and tell us everything’s going to be okay. I’m sorry. I know it sounds regressive. But I think it’s a human impulse. We want to feel safe and alive and sexy all at the same time.
- Please remember that times are changing and so am I.
- Two things about being pregnant: I loved sex and I loved food. Both of those things were absolutely amazing throughout both of my pregnancies. Other than that, I can’t say there was much that brought me any pleasure.
- It’s true what they say – when you have a baby, no one can prepare you. It’s a miracle. You’re creating another body. You grow up saying: “That person’s pregnant.” “That person had a baby.” But when you actually experience it yourself, it’s overwhelming. It was such a spiritual experience – such an incredibly powerful bond.
- Again and again in my life I’ve seen fame and money ruin people […]. In my experience, when most people – especially men – get that type of attention, it’s all over. They love it too much. And it’s not good for them.
- I actually envy the people who know how to make fame work for them, because I hide from it. I get very shy.
- Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice, especially when you can’t take as good as you give.
- Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you. I’d been the good girl for years. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it.
- My most special moments in life were taking naps with my children. That’s the closest I’ve ever felt to God – taking naps with my precious babies, smelling their hair, holding their tiny hands.
- As parents we’re always telling our children, “Stay safe. Don’t do this; don’t do that.” But even though safety is the most important thing, I also think it’s important to have awakenings and challenge ourselves to feel liberated, to be fearless and experience everything the world has to offer. .
- Help is good, but not if it’s not asked for. Not if it doesn’t feel like it’s a choice.
- We, as people, have to test the world. You have to test your boundaries, to find out who you are, how you want to live.
- If you stood up for me when I couldn’t stand up for myself: from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
- In my forties, I’m trying things for what feels like the first time. I feel like the woman in me was pushed down for so long. Now, finally, I’m roaring back to life.
- That’s the kind of thing I’m doing now – trying to have fun and trying to be kind to myself, to take things at my own pace. And, for the first time in a long time, allowing myself to trust again.
- Singing makes me feel confident and strong the same way exercise does, or prayer. Anything that gets your heart rate up is good. Music is that, plus a connection to God. That’s where my heart is.
- Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment. Right now it’s time for me to try to get my spiritual life in order, to pay attention to the little things, to slow down. It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want; it’s time to actually find myself.
- I’ve started to experience the riches of being an adult woman for the first time in many years. I feel like I’ve been underwater for so long, only rarely swimming up to the surface to gasp for air and a little food. When I regained my freedom, that was my cue to step out onto dry land – and, any time I want, to take vacations, sip a cocktail, drive my car, go to a resort, or stare out at the ocean. I’ve been taking it a day at a time and trying to be thankful for the little things.
- I’ve been through so much since I wandered the Louisiana woods as a child. I’ve made music, traveled all over the world, become a mother, found love and lost it and found it again. It’s been a while since I felt truly present in my own life, in my own power, in my womanhood. But I’m here now.