Quotes About Femininity

Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light-

She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound less like women and more like men. Maybe it was a gay thing.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

A bevy of fair women.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.