Quotes About Femininity

Thus, if a man is attracted to a woman of intelligence, confidence and strength, if he is attracted to a heroine, he reveals one kind of soul; if, instead, he is attracted to an irresponsible, helpless scatterbrain, whose weakness enables him to feel masculine, he reveals another kind of soul; if he is attracted to a frightened slut, whose lack of judgment and standards allows him to feel free of reproach, he reveals another kind of soul.

Women are taught from early childhood that their worth is proportional to their attractiveness.

It has been found that so called tomboy behavior in girls correlated closely with higher levels of testosterone. On the other side, low testosterone levels in males result in unassertive and 'feminine' behavior, whereas the highest levels of testosterone to which men are exposed during adolescence result in extra aggressiveness.

I went about my way rejoicing, thinking how wonderful it is to be a woman and a writer at the end of the twentieth century.

He also recommended that women dress properly when sleeping, so that if their houses were hit, they would not be "indecently exposed to strangers' eyes.

if you needed a woman, you were weak. Family was restrictive to your male freedoms.

Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.

Were the beaux less generous over time? Her assets less marketable? If she had lived to be old, would she have resided in a teacup, to be sipped at intervals beneath some gray moustache?

Honor women: They wreathe and weave Heavenly roses into earthly life. —Johann von Schiller

I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It cascaded in waves around the smooth contours of her shoulders, past the alluring shadows of her waist, around the upturned curve of her ass. She was tall and fine-boned, with delicate white skin, high cheekbones, and small, high breasts. Put the hair up, add a little couture, and you'd have the world's classiest courtesan.

she did remember one time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin; she remembered looking at the box of Stayfree pads and thinking that the box looked almost smug, seemed almost to be saying: Hello, Patty! We are your children. We are the only children you will ever have, and we are hungry. Nurse us. Nurse us on blood.

No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

I am so girly. I love dresses.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.