Quotes About Femininity

Like it or not, we were built tough, Because we're woman.

It was a long time since whe's been young and it was unlikely that she'd ever been lovely. She stood like a man, square-on. Her breasts pushed out the old tee-shirt, but it was clear from the way she stood that she'd forgotten about breasts being sexy. Her breasts made bulges in her shirt, the same way her knees made bulges in her black track pants, that was all.

Men do not appreciate intelligence in women. It is not considered to be feminine.

She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.

He thought of the Finishing School for Barbies where long-legged, high-breasted, stomachless girls went to get shaved clean, get their toenails painted pink, their nipples removed, and all body opening sewn shut, except for their mouths, which curved in perpetual smiles and led nowhere.

I'd always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know.

Girls are for dessert.

You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile

La belle était assise Près du ruisseau coulant, Et dans l'eau qui frétille, Baignait ses beaux pieds blancs.

Pentru mine, ca b?rbat, femeia e stranie ?i str?in? (atât de stranie încât sfâr?e?te prin a deveni "mister")

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

That's pretty much our story: Melanie and Scarlett, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane, the soccer moms and the vampire slayers. All of them are more complicated than they let on.

But there were a few well-known real-life cowgirls, and the most famous by far were Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane. They were America's first action heroines, amalgams of femininity and fighting spirit. Not since Hannah Dustan scalped her Indian captors in 1697 had the country been so enamored with the idea of a woman warrior.

Just being female made women candidates for perpetual medical care, because doctors began treating all the normal passages of their lives—puberty, menstruation, childbirth, and menopause—as illnesses.

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside.

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had. That doesn't count as another life, really. That's a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.)

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands. Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Life is beyond the formal logic. For this reason it's not surprising that women who intuitively perceive the world seem illogical to us.

Now would all the waves were women, then I'd drown, and chassée with them evermore!

When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.