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Quotes About Femininity

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
~ Eve Arnold
Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.
~ Gackt
The woman's function is to fascinate men.
~ George Balanchine
"Is God a Man or a Woman ?" The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.
~ Madame de Stael
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
~ Tanith Lee
I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.
~ Andy Warhol
You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.
~ Carolina Herrera
I go to bed with men, not boys.
~ Linda Fiorentino
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
~ Pope John Paul II
I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
~ Hank Azaria
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
~ Homer
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
~ Ida Lupino
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
~ Julie Burchill
I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
~ Kim Cattrall
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
~ W. L. George
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
~ Dorothy Parker
It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.
~ Frances Power Cobbe
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.
~ Frank Pittman
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
~ Orson Scott Card
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
~ Ang Lee
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
~ Bob Dylan