Quotes About Femininity

Stabilire il numero delle donnine allegre è un'impresa disperata. Anzitutto la categoria si presta male a una precisa definizione perché tra i due estremi di «donna onesta» e «prostituta pubblica» esiste tutta una vasta gamma di condizione intermedie dai contorni confusi.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Porque entonces era lo suficientemente atontada para no darme cuenta que aquél era uno de los infinitos hombres que nacen sólo para sementales y junto a una mujer no entienden otra actitud que ésta. Su cerebro y su corazón no llegan a más.

It was easy for me to understand this language of blood, pain, and creation that begins with physical substance itself when one is a woman.

In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

tittupped after her.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

I think the female form is so beautiful that I'm sure belly dance was created when a drummer watched a woman walking down the street. The sway of her hips was intoxicating and pulled the rhythm right out of the drum.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

He looks like a bear and I don't know how any woman could be intimate with him if she weren't allowed to whip him.

the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was not clearly delineated . . . How many women there were . . . who tore themselves or their families apart because they could not allow themselves any action or occupation that could appear manly, and might make their husbands appear less so. [pp. 132-133]

She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.

Girls shimmered, as if all the light shone on them and not on the boys at all.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.

The women are the strong ones, truly.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

She had a warrior's heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman.

No, but you have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but . . . I don't know . . . a kind of woman's courage.

I was a wolf, she thought, but now I'm just a stupid little lady again.