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Quotes About Femininity

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.
~ Virginia Woolf
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
~ Willem Dafoe
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!
~ William Batchelder Greene
Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
~ William P. Young
A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.
~ William Shakespeare
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
~ William Shakespeare
Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.
~ William Shakespeare
Women's weapons, water-drops.
~ William Shakespeare
O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?
~ William Shakespeare
Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
~ William Shakespeare
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
~ Xinran
All women are lips, nothing but lips.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?
~ Zach Braff
I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE!
~ Zach Braff
I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful
~ Zooey Deschanel
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!
~ Coco Chanel
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
~ Jane Austen
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
~ Elizabeth I
…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson