Quotes About Femininity

A princess attracts a prince, and a queen attracts a king. Women who whine attract men who whine. Women full of the lioness heart attract men who are full of the lion.

The mother of any species is loving and tender toward her young but fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. What has happened to the female of our species?

We must lead with the power of our womanly knowingness and let new careers take shape around it.

Les femmes n'ont pas de nom. Elles ont un prénom. Leur nom est un prêt transitoire, un signe instable, leur éphémère. Elles trouvent d'autres repères. Leur affirmation au monde, leur être là, leur création, leur signature, en sont déterminés. Elles s'inventent dans un monde d'hommes, par effraction.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Tú eres bonita sobre todo cuando sonríes.

El heroísmo, la audacia, la prodigalidad, la libertad son, aparentemente, prerrogativas masculinas; sin embargo, Emma descubre que los varones que la rodean —Charles, Léon, Rodolphe— se vuelven blandos, cobardes, mediocres y esclavos apenas ella asume una actitud «masculina» (la única que le permite romper la esclavitud a que están condenadas las de su sexo en la realidad ficticia).

Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

She has grown up as a woman. She has been taught to flatter, to please, to depend, to give way, to make herself small and quiet. She has been told to be soft so that men will always have a means by which they can hurt and control her, that ring through the nose which men call femininity. But she has silently refused to accept these lessons.

Harry looked at Margaret and thought that, should a woman grow old, she might still have her deepest charm. Should a woman grow old, she would still be a woman, the essence of being so being so inerasable as never to vanish. And if men were to understand this as they, too, grew old, the world would be a happier place.

Ella era una mezcla entre John Rambo y Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning cruzada con Death Wish 4.

As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a virago. Though Theseus loved an Amazon, he showed his love but roughly, and from the time of Theseus downward, no man ever wished to have his wife remarkable rather for forward prowess than retiring gentleness. A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! 

When he entered the drawing-room she was sitting alone, in a large, low chair, made without arms, so as to admit the full expansion of her dress, but hollowed and rounded at the back, so as to afford her the support that was necessary to her. She had barely spoke three words since she had left the dining-room, but the time had not passed heavily with her.

traitor to that feminine faith against which treason on the part of one woman is always unpardonable in the eyes of other women. But her treason would have been of a deeper die had she sent the latter portion

Of course Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing-mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

She need never again seem to be gay in order that men might be attracted. She

A host of scorpions crawl out from under the wetnurse's dress and start swarming in her vagina which swells and splits, becomes transparent and shimmers like the sun

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.