Quotes About Femininity

I think if you had a dick, all sorts of bad things would happen.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

They were hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased, these women of Brewster Place.

Oh, we're not offended," Cassandra assured him. "We're just not men.

Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him.

Was hätt' ein Weiberkopf erdacht, das er nicht zu beschönen wüßte!

She'd done her face, I guessed, in the hasty, automatic way of women who don't need to slap it on like warpaint.

Scarlett O'Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.

Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it.

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

A ponytail or a chignon makes me feel very beautiful and sensual. I feel like I can be more myself that way - I can move and talk without worrying about the hair.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

I was thin and didn't realize how small I was - I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don't want to be 96 pounds. It's not attractive. I didn't know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.

I'm a girl, and I like girly things even though I'm a tomboy also, you know?

I can be a tomboy or an absolute lady - I gave myself the title 'The Best of Both Girls.'

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.