Quotes About Femininity

Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.

For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman's kiss. Those

Los hombres tienen cicatrices, las mujeres, secretos. Cersei Lannister

Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya... dan bagian yang kelihatannya ajaib nyatanya malah yang paling kacau

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

hung like a trembling curtain of black lace

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really leads only to self-torture.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all contradiction.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. It's not a fashion accessory.

Poison's generally a woman's weapon." "Sexist." "Statistics," she countered.

there was even a whole section dedicated to throats and boobs, though they called it décolletage.

women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.

Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze.

For that is surely what a woman wants: to be courted, wooed, persuaded, won! Even when she surrenders, she wants to give herself up not frankly but in a delicious haze of confusion, resisting yet unresisting. Falling, but never an irrevocable falling. No: to fall and then come back from the fall new, remade, virginal, ready to be wooed again and to fall again. A playing with death, a play of resurrection.

Shit, it was so damn girly. Next thing you knew, she was going to start crying at TV ads and doing her nails. And getting a frickin' pocketbook.