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Quotes About Femininity

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
~ Sophocles
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.
~ Rachel Bloom
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
~ Felicity Kendal
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love women more than anything.
~ Vin Diesel
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
~ Toyin Odutola
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
~ Susan Sarandon
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
~ Amber Valletta
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
~ Vanessa Carlton
But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
~ Rupert Brooke
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
~ Alexander Pope
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
~ Abraham Cowley
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
~ Serena Williams
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
~ Samuel Smiles
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
~ Gertrude Atherton
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
~ Erich von Stroheim
Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.
~ Linda Howard
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
~ Tertullian
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
~ Alexander Pope
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
~ Walter Scott