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Quotes About Femininity

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
~ Honore de Balzac
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
~ Honore de Balzac
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
~ Iris Murdoch
Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful.
~ Isabel Wolff
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
~ Isla Fisher
Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.
~ Jacques Deval
Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.
~ James Patterson
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
~ Jamie Bell
"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
~ Jane Fonda
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.
~ Jill Scott
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
~ Jo Brand
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.
~ Jo Brand
I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
~ Jodie Foster
Association with women is the basis of good manners.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
~ John Updike
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
~ Joseph Addison
I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive.
~ Joseph Altuzarra
I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.
~ Joseph McGinty Nichol
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
~ Julie Burchill
I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
~ Julie Walters