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Quotes About Femininity

Sus pies son hermosos, sus ojos radiantes, sus brazos y sus pechos son el paraìso, su encanto supera todas las maravillas que jamàs hayan deslumbrado al hombre; y, del mismo modo que el imàn arrastra inevitablemente al metal, la mujer arrastra inevitablemente a los hombres.
~ Jack London
And so we come to it—the everlasting mystery of woman. One may not be able to get along with her; yet is it patent, as of old time, that one cannot get along without her.
~ Jack London
highest mountain always had the title of khan. Rivers and lakes that never ran dry bore the title khatun
~ Jack Weatherford
It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself.
~ Jacqueline Carey
She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Il est étrange que je meure de l'utérus, moi qui n'ai jamais eu de règles et qui n'ai pas connu les hommes.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.
~ Jacqueline Rose
Yes, my uterus was removed Ã¢â'¬â€ peritonitis had set in. But it is wonderful. I am no longer bothered with the monthly period.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Listen, all I ask in the next life is to come back as a beautiful broad
~ Jacqueline Susann
Magda likes her because she sings songs with very powerful, positive lyrics. Nadine likes her because her music is very cool and hip. I like her because she's got long, wild curly hair a bit like mine but much lovelier and she's not a bit fat but she is much curvier than your average rock chick. So she's kind of my role model.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where blood could flow.
~ James Baldwin
Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where they blood could flow.
~ James Baldwin
So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.
~ James Clavell
For a woman, old age is never pretty.
~ James Clavell
I was quite... feminine. Not in my actions, in my ways. If one of my uncles had trouble at school, they'd go to that person and thump him. It's all a man thing. They got sent off to boxing when they were kids. You live in a tough area, you get off to boxing. My auntie tried to do that to me. I lasted six minutes in boxing.
~ Tricky
I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.
~ Alexa Chung
I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.
~ Moon Bloodgood
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
~ Margaret D. Nadauld
I think I feel most sexy when I have a matching lingerie set underneath what I'm wearing. I know what's going on and no one else does.
~ Italia Ricci
I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what's underneath rather than display it.
~ Eileen Atkins
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.
~ Hari Nef
With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
~ Dana Plato