Quotes About Femininity

Toutes les juives ne sont pas mères, mais toutes les mères sont juives.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

All the women in me are tired.

I don't resemble my mom at all. Mom made beauty seem like a magic trick I'd never learn. I think there was a part of me that was trying, in those moments, to know her deeply, deep enough so that I could one day bring to light any small part of me that was hers. —

The thinner the eyebrow, the crazier the woman.

And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.

The 'big three' desirable features for a heterosexual man's mate are perhaps unsurprising – femininity, health, fertility. Men seek women who look obviously like women; men seek women who have good genes and are healthy; men seek women who look like they have years of efficient breeding ahead of them.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

I've got enormous breasts.

I truly enjoy having a true dialog with women, it is always refreshing when I hang out with intelligent women.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

This is a mans world. This is a mans world. But it would be nothing, nothing Without a women or a girl.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose white scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze; a girl as bewitching, and clever, as any girl who ever lived.

How nice to go through life being male, pretty and wanted.

I'm going back to Russia. That's where the money is, and the power. And, of course, the ladies.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

I wish I could drink like a lady I can take one or two at the most Three and I'm under the table Four and I'm under the host.

I think there is nothing like a rubber-capped thumb and a bandaged knee to render a woman practically irresistible.