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Quotes About Femininity

More: she is something that cries out to be rescued, set free, and redeemed, and she demands that the man shall prove himself manly, not merely as the bearer of the phallic instrument of fertilization, but as a spiritual potency, a hero. She expects strength, cunning, resourcefulness, bravery, protection, and readiness to fight.
~ Erich Neumann
kinship libido."8 That is to say, the original state of participation mystique in the uroboros expresses itself as the force of inertia that keeps man fixed in the oldest and most intimate of family ties. These family ties are personalistically projected to mother and sister; and the symbolic incest with them, straining back to the uroboros, is therefore marked by a 'lower femininity" which binds the individual and his ego to the unconscious.
~ Erich Neumann
For [the Mother Goddess,] loving, dying, and being emasculated are the same thing.
~ Erich Neumann
Plenty of she-cats have kits and then return to the warriors' den." But do they become Clan leader?
~ Erin Hunter
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
~ Beatrice Wood
Chocolate's status as food for girls and women - something to be yearned for and then regretted - is so ingrained that it would be easy to assume that there is something deep within females that makes them crave chocolate.
~ Bee Wilson
As soon as you enter," he said, "I know. Tout de suite I know. You are tigresse." She smiled her slow smile. This was better; the man had something after all.
~ Bel Kaufman
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
~ Bela Lugosi
What do you see when you look at me like that?" she asked. I didn't have a good answer, so I went for honesty instead. "I don't know," I said. "Everything. That's what I see—everything." "You think I'm that huge, then?" she said. "I am woman, I contain multitudes. All shall look upon me and despair." "Shall I compare thee to a giant squid," I said. "Thou art more lovely and less tentacled.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed
~ Ben Aaronovitch
All women are beautiful; it's society who's ugly.
~ Ben Mitchell
Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.
~ Ben Thompson
The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.
~ Benita Roth
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~ Benito Perez Galdos
The women, too, exhibit a high level of grace, intelligence, strength, and beauty.
~ Benjamin Blech
In a woman whose chief capital is her beauty, to be forty is a crime against society.
~ bennett arnold iii
Perhaps there were two areas he didn't go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.
~ Benoît Peeters
What has helped me: There aren't a lot of girls who dance, who are as refined in dancing. That is what draws people to see me. The dance, and the prettiness.
~ Sahara Davenport
I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
~ Marilyn Minter
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.
~ Emilia Wickstead
I'm really growing as a woman, and it just reflects in the music.
~ Latto
I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.
~ Sushmita Sen
I feel I am confident in my own skin and I think that's important for any girl. It reflects in the way you speak, in the way you walk and sit.
~ Athiya Shetty
While the male wants to conquer the world, the woman has a take on her immediate world that is so sparklingly refreshing that the male cannot even think of it.
~ Mahesh Bhatt