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Quotes About Femininity

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
~ Hermione Gingold
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
~ Honore de Balzac
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume
~ Sacha Guitry
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
~ Camille Paglia
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
~ Lena Horne
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
~ Valentino Garavani
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.
~ James Sheridan Knowles
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
~ Oscar de la Renta
Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
~ Jean Harlow
There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
~ Manolo Blahnik
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
~ Leo Tolstoy
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
~ Carol Gilligan
To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.
~ Helen Andelin
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
~ Vanessa Marcil
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
~ Naomi Wolf
I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick
~ Monica Bellucci
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.
~ Ann Demeulemeester
You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
~ Naomi Watts
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~ Susan Brownmiller
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
~ Mario Puzo
Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.
~ Naomi Ragen
Every woman has the right to be beautiful.
~ Elizabeth Arden
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
~ Erk Russell