Quotes About Femininity

The vulva, clitoris, and vagina are actually best understood as the surface of an ocean that is shot through with vibrant networks of underwater lightning—intricate and fragile, individually varied neural pathways.

Women's writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.

If a woman's sexual sense of self has centered on pain as far back as the record goes, who is she without it? If suffering is beauty and beauty is love, she cannot be sure she will be loved if she does not suffer. It is hard, because of such conditioning, to envisage a female body free of pain and still desirable.

The compulsion to imitate her is not something trivial that women choose freely to do to ourselves. It is something serious being done to us to safeguard political power. Seen in this light, it is inconceivable that women would not have to be compelled to grow thin at this point in our history.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.

By simply dropping the official weight one stone below most women's natural level, and redefining a woman's womanly shape as by definition "too fat," a wave of self-hatred swept over First World women, a reactionary psychology was perfected, and a major industry was born. It suavely countered the historical groundswell of female success with a mass conviction of female failure, a failure defined as implicit in womanhood itself.

The harm is apparent in the way such imagery represses female sexuality and lowers women's sexual self-esteem by casting sex as locked in a chastity belt to which "beauty" is the only key.

Is beauty really sex? Does a woman's sexuality correspond to what she looks like? Does she have the right to sexual pleasure and self-esteem because she's a person, or must she earn that right through beauty, as she used to through marriage?

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

A girl learns that stories happen to beautiful women, whether they are interesting or not. And, interesting or not, stories do not happen to women who are not beautiful.

for women's magazines cannot become more interesting until women believe that we ourselves are more interesting—the myth is bound to become many times more powerful.

Beauty" is not universal or changeless, though the West pretends that all ideals of female beauty stem from one Platonic Ideal Woman; the Maori admire a fat vulva, and the Padung, droopy breasts.

They reclassify healthy female flesh as "cellulite," an invented "condition" that was imported into the United States by vogue only in 1973; they refer to this texture as "disfiguring," unsightly," "polluted with toxins." Before 1973, it was normal female flesh.

Men die once and women die twice. Women die as beauties before their bodies die.

The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is to win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

El corazón de la hembra es un laberinto de sutilezas que desafía la mente cerril del varón trapacero. Si quiere usted de verdad poseer a una mujer, tiene que pensar como ella, y lo primero es ganarse su alma. El resto, el dulce envoltorio mullido que le pierde a uno el sentido y la virtud, viene por añadidura.

God?gi sakot, es par sieviet?m neko daudz nezinu. - Zin?t nezina neviens: ne Freids, ne ar? vi?s pašas, bet tas ir t?pat k? ar elektr?bu, nevajag zin?t, k? t? darbojas, lai dab?tu pa pirkstiem.

El corazón de la hembra es un laberinto de sutilezas que desafía la mente cerril del varón trapacero. Si quiere usted de verdad poseer a una mujer, tiene que pensar como ella, y lo primero es ganarse su alma.

Il cuore di una donna è un meccanismo complesso, insensibile ai rozzi ragionamenti del maschio avventuriero. Se si vuole davvero possedere una donna, bisogna imparare a pensare come lei. Tutto il resto, il morbido involucro che ti fa perdere la ragione e l'onore, viene di conseguenza.

Senki sem tud úgy olvasni egy nÅ'ben, mint egy másik nÅ' - az alatt a rövid pillanat alatt, míg kezük egymáshoz ért, amint Alicia visszaadta a kis Julián játékát, és a szemük is összetalálkozott, mindketten úgy érezték: az idÅ'n keresztül néznek tükörbe.

O coração de fêmea é um labirinto de subtilezas que desafia a mente grosseira do macho trapaceiro.

In God is a woman like yourself.

I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.