Quotes About Femininity

And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.

Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

beautiful one. Emily was

That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn't feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.

They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know.

A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Of the three of us, I alone was allowed to enter Amma's bedroom and watch her get dressed for special occasions. It was an experience I considered almost religious, for, even though I adored the goddesses of the local cinema, Amma was the final statement in female beauty for me.

Ich zum Beispiel sehe aus wie immer. Wie eine Schlampe ungewissen Alters, die Männer auslutscht, Zigaretten verschlingt, auf hohen Hacken hockt, in ihrem Dekoleté nach Dingen sucht, nach Spaghetti oder ausgelutschten Kippen, nichts findet und sich darauf einen Mann ansteckt.

The three great stumbling blocks in a girl's education… homard a l'Américaine, a boiled egg, and asparagus.

Il peggio nella vita di una donna: il primo uomo. Si muore soltanto di quello, dopo di che la vita coniugale- o la sua contrffazione- diventa una carriera. Una carriera, burocratica a volte, da cui nulla ci distrae nè ci solleva tranne il gioco di equilibri che, a tempo debito, spinge il vecchio verso la giovincella e Chè ri verso Lèa.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

se na sociedade capitalista a "feminilidade" foi construída como uma função-trabalho que oculta a produção da força de trabalho sob o disfarce de um destino biológico, a história das mulheres é a história das classes, [...] "mulher" é uma categoria de análise legítima, e as atividades associadas à reprodução seguem sendo um terreno de luta fundamental para as mulheres.

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.

For his presumption, his misunderstanding of what had been only a momentary weakness, instead of angering quickened her, roused from latency and long disuse all the instincts and resources of her femininity. She felt eager, challenged. Something was at hand that hitherto had always eluded her, even in the early days in John, something vital, beckoning, meaningful.

Most women are not so young as they are painted.

Una mujer sentada junto a la ventana. Piensa / y mientras piensa, desespera / desespera por ser quien es / y no otra persona.

The pleasure was in the staging, the idea of ourselves as a repetition of others. I knew this without saying it, felt my femininity as the game of all women, a mysterious identification in which I lost myself.

This was not some regular dame. No, this was a doll with high tastes, with ideas dancing in her head like fireflies.

I'm sure that my dreams of maleness are least partly about escaping the cultural expectation that burden femininity, but I also think they are something more complex, that the dreams recognize a truth that there is a man in me as well as a woman and that this duality is in fact part of being human, but not one that is always easy to reconcile.

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.