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Quotes About Femininity

I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women's features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Besides, just because they wore frills and makeup didn't mean they weren't dangerous[...]
~ Brandon Sanderson
This is not a topic for gentlemen to discuss," he said with an airy tone. "I'm neither gentle nor a man," Veil said.
~ Brandon Sanderson
In a US study on conformity to feminine norms, researchers recently listed the most important attributes associated with "being feminine" as being nice, pursuing a thin body ideal, showing modesty by not calling attention to one's talents or abilities, being domestic, caring for children, investing in a romantic relationship, keeping sexual intimacy contained within one committed relationship, and using our resources to invest in our appearance.
~ Brene Brown
The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.
~ Brenda Cooper
Isn't blood a woman's ink?
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
~ Helene Cixous
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago. And she replied: But I'm also three weeks older.
~ Helmut Newton
There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace.
~ Henning Mankell
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
~ Henry James
but she carries her head like a pretty woman. (Chapter 1)
~ Henry James
There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
~ Henry Miller
I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent.
~ Henry Miller
The trouble with Irene is that she has a valise instead of a cunt. She wants fat letters to shove in her valise.
~ Henry Miller
In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing.
~ Henry Miller
Eu,una,n-am s? fiu niciodat? mam?,a declarat Stasia.Am ras cu to?ii.Nici so?ie nu am s? fiu vreodat?;Doamne,e destul de complicat s? fii femeie.Ur?sc femeile!Toate-s ni?te c??ele scarboase,chiar cele mai bune dintre ele.Eu o s? fiu ceea ce sunt:o impostoare care joac? rolul de femeie.
~ Henry Miller
Tampoco seré esposa. Joder, ya es bastante difícil ser mujer. ¡Detesto a las mujeres! Todas son unos bichos, hasta las mejores. Yo seré lo que soy: alguien que interpreta el papel de mujer.
~ Henry Miller
Like Boticelli's Venus, you rose from the sea and are still all foam!
~ Henry Miller
Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
~ Henry Miller
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
~ Herman Melville
Yes, I wear caramel-colored Nude Barre fishnets August through June. Especially with shorter dresses, at age 48, they give my legs a nice finish.
~ Wendy Williams
But for women - and, yes, this is strictly applicable to females - grey hair is still a rarity, especially if you're in the public eye.
~ Susanna Reid