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Quotes About Femininity

I am the first and the last I am she who is honored and she who is mocked I am the whore and the holy woman I am the wife and the virgin I am the mother and the daughter I am she . . . Do not be afraid of my power . . . I am the knowledge of my name I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name THE THUNDER: PERFECT MIND
~ Sue Monk Kidd
creativity. I always return to the idea of her virginity, how it symbolizes self-belonging. I believe the possibility of that exists in a woman. It's
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I am the first and the last I am she who is honored and she who is mocked I am the whore and the holy woman I am the wife and the virgin I am the mother and the daughter I am she . . . Do not be afraid of my power . . . I am the knowledge of my name I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Is there an odyssey the female soul longs to make at the approach of fifty – one that has been blurred and lost within a culture awesomely alienated from soul? If so, what sort of journey would that be? Where would it take me?
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She smiled and the skin wrinkled around her eyes in that way that makes a woman beautiful.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The oddest things caused me to miss her. Like training bras. Who was I going to ask about that? And who but my mother could've understood the magnitude of driving me to junior cheerleader tryouts? I can tell you for certain T. Ray didn't grasp it. But you know when I missed her the most? The day I was twelve and woke up with the rose-petal stain on my panties. I was so proud of that flower and didn't have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.
~ Susan Mallery
her body was stirring as heat sparked and her girl parts woke up. No
~ Susan Mallery
No está mal ser bella lo que está mal es la obligación de serlo.
~ Susan Sontag
A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.
~ Susan Vreeland
she learned early on that looking pretty wasn't always an advantage. Sometimes it attracted the wrong kind of attention.
~ Susan Wiggs
A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear.
~ Susanna Clarke
I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die
~ Susanna Clarke
ankles. The woman turned just once at the
~ Josephine Cox
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
~ Josephine Humphreys
For Liz, all American men were divided into two classes: those who treated you as if you were a frail old lady, and those who treated you as if you were just frail.
~ Josephine Tey
Any woman can be both the perfect housewife and an accomplished assassin, because both functions require the same qualities: creativity; a never-say-die attitude; and an attention to details, no matter how small…
~ Josie Brown
Pocas veces, por desgracia, una mujer fue tan decisiva; no es de extrañar, pues, que [Cleopatra VII Philopátor], proclamada reencarnación viviente de la diosa Isis, se ganara a pulso su entrada majestuosa en el cielo de los faraones
~ Juan Antonio Cebrián
Tengo oído que las toledanas son muy femeniles y han muy buenas posaderas y muslos muy firmes y ejercitados de subir cuestas.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
Los que bien conocen la ciencia mujeril saben que las dueñas chicas mejoran a las grandes en agudeza e ingenio y en que lo tienen todo más a mano.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:
~ Jude Deveraux
One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remembers a time when women were all-powerful. The men bumped into each other as they ran to do her bidding.
~ Jude Deveraux
We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders
~ Judith Halberstam
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.
~ Judith Martin