Quotes About Femininity

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

Come on, Avery. Fresh tears stained her cheeks. Her voice shook. Wake up, damn it! She sobbed, rocking forward and back, her arms wrapping tightly around his big body. Don't you want to shout at me for disobeying you, you overbearing, domineering male? She squeezed her eyes shut and bit hard on her lip. He couldn't die. He was too stubborn, too alive, too vigorous. And she couldn't lose him. She loved him too much. I… am a… gentleman, she heard him gasp. I never shout at women.

This is the Victorian era, she said. Women didn't have to make sense.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.

Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human.

That's pretty much gone. I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.

She said that femininity encoded mandates that were far less forgiving than anything men were familiar with.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

There's no better investment than your cleavage. Charlotte smirked. I believe they teach that in business school.

Did he, in a way he was unable to articulate, actually like my strong will? Or did he mistake me for a typical woman, was he game to be my boyfriend not because I was Hillary and distinctly myself but because I possessed the standard feminine qualities that a college-educated man in the late 1960s might wish for? Did he not understand that I was special?

Go home, put on a pretty dress, some heels, and some lipstick, flirt with him, flatter him, and never forget how insecure men are. It's because they take themselves far too seriously.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.