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Quotes About Femininity

and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.
~ Helen DeWitt
A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the pussy will follow.
~ Helen Ellis
Sugar, nobody's perfect. And when ladies try to be perfect, their periods stop.
~ Helen Ellis
I cry because I don't have the upper-arm strength to flatiron my hair. I
~ Helen Ellis
A good bra is fine, but a great bra is life changing. It gives you the confidence of a homecoming queen. It's a tiara for your ta-tas.
~ Helen Ellis
My novel is sponsored by Tampax. It's the story of three generations of women and spans three decades. That's a lot of menstruation. So every time a character rides the cotton pogo stick—Voilà! Tampax.
~ Helen Ellis
She didn't look into the mirror itself. She was becoming someone, it seemed. She had read somewhere that you only became a woman once your mother had died. But that wasn't what worried her. She worried about becoming as perfect as the person shown to her on paper in Lily's studio.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I'm not saying I'm amazing or anything, but I'm decent-looking. Why shouldn't a decent-looking girl expect to be kissed?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She knows her place, she sure does know her place. There's something ghostlike about this girl . . .
~ Helen Oyeyemi
In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.
~ Helen Reddy
Being too thin isn't particularly desirable here. Women eat.
~ Helen Russell
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male; the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object—and most particularly an object of vision.
~ Helena Goscilo
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
~ Helena Rubinstein
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
~ Helmut Newton
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.
~ Henri Barbusse
No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.
~ Henry Cornelius Agrippa
You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.
~ Henry Murger
Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
~ Henry Rollins
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.
~ Henry Rollins
What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Oj, pójdziewa w ?yto, BoÅ› dobra, kobieto!
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles.
~ Leo Tolstoy
These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.
~ Leo Tolstoy