Quotes About Femininity

slowly lowered herself to the mat. She placed her hands, palms up, on her thighs and spread her knees. Arching her back, she gave them all a lovely view of her cunt, all the while keeping her eyes properly downcast.

Girls are always at their best smiling.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie.

She's got powers," said de Bono, taking off his spectacles and surveying the terrain ahead. "Most women have, of course.

Much of what is considered good in little girls is considered downright repulsive in little boys. Physical timidity or hypercautiousness, being quietly well behaved, and depending on others for help and support are thought to be natural - if not outright charming - in girls. Boys, however, are actively discouraged from the dependent forms of relating, which are considered sissyish in male children.

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

but somehow that was always his effect on a woman, to throw into relief her femininity and basic response to a dominant personality. It was infuriating, of course, to be so female as to derive pleasure out of submittance to a male, but she was too weak right now to put up any fight against her own treacherous instincts.

She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves

Dux femina facit.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought.

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.

The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man.

Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness.

She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street, this being Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa anymore; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway.

Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly desires if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the humane spirit, which are', she said aloud as her habit was when deeply moved, 'contemplation, solitude, love.

she could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.