Quotes About Femininity

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Not only do women hold up half the sky; we do it while carrying a 500-pound purse.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '

And: there are so many paths we could have traveled—so many other people we could have been. Staying would not have rendered me weak—an inconsequential June Cleaver—just as cheating didn't make me a coldhearted monster. The clean reduction of a woman to any prime number is always a lie, even if some lies are prettier than others.

God wants us to have fat on our hips, stomach, thighs, and breasts. It was His clear intention. Does

si te dijera a cuántas mujeres maravillosas, lindas, sanas, tengo yo que consolar porque sienten que ya perdieron todos los derechos tan sólo porque cumplieron cuarenta. Todo está en la cabeza. Son las ideas las que nos acaban mucho antes de que se acabe el cuerpo.

Gioconda aborda temas femeninos como la menarquía, menstruación y menopausia. Hace alusión al desorden hormonal en una prosa poética. Aborda además, el cansancio de un matrimonio de 26 años, un esposo exitoso y una mujer que busca su propia identidad. Ambos cometen infidelidad.

El problema para mí no es lo que se piensa de las mujeres, sino lo que nosotras hemos aceptado pensar de nosotras mismas. Nos hemos dejado culpabilizar por ser mujeres, hemos dejado que nos convenzan de que nuestras mejores cualidades son una debilidad. Lo que tenemos que hacer es demostrar cómo esa manera de ser y actuar femenina puede cambiar no solo este país, sino el mundo entero

Nos hemos pasado demasiado tiempo arrepintiéndonos de ser mujeres —decía— y tratando de demostrar que no lo somos, como si serlo no fuera nuestra principal fuerza, pero no más: vamos a tomar cada estereotipo femenino y llevarlo hasta las últimas consecuencias.

Tenendosi a braccetto, alcune ragazze formavano a volte delle catene tutte femminili di cinque o sei. Strane, mi dicevo, guardandole. Nell'attimo che le incrociavamo, scrutavano attraverso i cristalli coi loro occhi ridenti, nei quali la curiosità si mescolava a una specie di bizzarro orgoglio, di disprezzo appena simulato. Davvero strane. Belle e Libere.

Y si tú no te has dado cuenta de otra cosa, sí debes darte de ésta: que nosotras siempre estamos dispuestas, lo que no sucede con los hombres; y además de esto, una mujer cansaría a muchos hombres, mientras muchos hombres no pueden cansar a una mujer:

Femeile de la r?zboi încoace deveniser? prea evidente, din generaÅ£ie în generaÅ£ie. Descoperindu-le pulpele, rochia le scurta misterul, dup? cum ÅŸi p?rul care le descoperea ÅŸi masculiniza ceafa. Nudismul desfiinÅ£a acest mister împuÅ£inat de dimensiunile hainelor. Odinioar? erau un foÅŸnet pentru suflet, acuma deveniser? un marÅŸ.

Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it. Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.

We are all trained to be female impersonators.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.

Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don't have to put on an act. If I'm not feminine enough for someone, I don't care, because femininity is different in everyone's mind.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine", so we suppress it-until it overflows.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress it—until it overflows.

Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Woman is God's supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.

Girl, n. A giggle with glitter on it.