Quotes About Femininity

She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one.

Mr. Boot draws back his leg, preparing to deliver another strike. I prepare to take it like a girl. Better than a man.

Ma'am? The worst insult known to womankind.

Being a girl is complicated. But it isn't all bad, I have to admit.

It seems likely that male choice shaped breasts not to distinguish girls from women, but to distinguish young women from older women. Here, the informative thing about breasts is the way they droop with the effects of age and gravity.

Jaq has put on her gown, her long silver gown, and she's rebraided her hair and applied her makeup, and she's breathtakingly beautiful. She has her backpack on and her bike helmet. Roxanne says, "What's this?" Jaq says, "I'm going to the Ball, Mama.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

There was more to it than that—my mother's face had feminine gentleness. Mine didn't, at least not when compared to hers. If we were to stand side by side in a room full of people, I wouldn't get a single glance. And if someone had stopped to chat me up, she could've stolen him with a single smile. Pretty . . . Yeah. Nice understatement, Dad. On the other hand, if the same people had to pick one of us to kick a bad guy in the kneecap, I'd get the vote, no problem.

En kvinne bør ligne på en kvige: øm, tillitsfull og frodig, med en kropp så hvit som fløte - en hud som gamle skuespillerinner, skjønner dere, en hud som er myk av massasje og gjennomtrengt av sminke og pudder.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart, was something I had not experienced with any other woman.

As she handed it over Dr Klein gave me a keen look. Her narrow dark eyes, which seemed in the strange light to be shot with red, had the slightly Oriental appearance peculiar to certain Jewish women.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Les esprits aiment la nuit, qui sait plus qu'une femme donner une âme à toutes choses.

that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.

The girl you were died; the potion of death was what all of us women swallow sooner or later. Have you noticed how at puberty the Amazon-like energy we are born with fades and we turn into doubt-filled creatures with clipped wings? The woman left trapped in the silo is also you, a prisoner of the restrictions of adult life. The female condition is a disgrace, Isabel, it's like having rocks tied to your ankles so you can't fly.

The lack of a father leaves a hole in a woman's heart, Lucia. A girl needs to feel she is protected; she needs masculine energy to develop trust in men and later to be able to give herself in love.

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

Docility, praised as a feminine virtue, is our worst enemy; it has never served us well, it is only convenient for men.

Una mujer de cincuenta puede ser invisible en Las Vegas, pero muy atractiva en París.

because in essence they were sisters—as, finally, most women are.