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Quotes About Femininity

and in less time than he had ever known a woman take to dress she was back in a travelling habit and a broad-brimmed veiled hat.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Woman you may be, but descended from a knight, or a crusader.
~ Pauline Réage
such modesty and shame in a whore! Just
~ Pauline Réage
She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
Men. They thought they ruled the world but couldn't so much as take a step without, that very same night, seeking the opinions of their partners, lovers, girlfriends, mothers.
~ Paulo Coelho
But is strength comfort for a woman?
~ Pearl S. Buck
They too struggle with the expectation to look sexy but not to feel sexual, to provoke desire in others without experience it themselves. Our daughters may not be faced with the decision of whether to strip for maxim, but they will have to figure out how to become sexual beings without being objectified or stigmatized.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.
~ Peggy Orenstein
The culture is littered with female body parts, with clothes and posturing that purportedly express sexual confidence. But who cares how "proud" you are of your body's appearance if you don't enjoy its responses?
~ Peggy Orenstein
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
~ Unknown
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.
~ Germaine Greer
Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.
~ Isabel Toledo
Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Art-school girls are very nice.
~ Anthony Mackie
Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.
~ Edwin Diamond
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
~ Herman Melville
She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.
~ Phil Ochs
Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
~ Tom Petty
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.
~ Zhang Ziyi
there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
~ Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
~ Georges Bataille
A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.
~ Unknown
and French-braided hair
~ Danielle Steel
thinking how hard it must be to be a woman, always having to be strong and comfort others, and how lonely it was to be a man. —
~ Danielle Steel