Quotes About Femininity

For only now did she understand that a woman is born a woman from that first wail at birth. A woman's destiny is to be a woman.

O destino de uma mulher é ser mulher.

No. It's not easy. But it "is." I ate my own placenta so as not to have to eat for four days. To have milk to give you. Milk is a "this." And no one is I. No one is you. That is what solitude is.

When the ancient goddesses—Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna, Isis, Diana, Athena…and, yes, Mary—were described as virgins, it didn't mean that they had never been touched, had never felt desire, or had never experienced sexual union. It meant that no man could own them or defile them. They were not pure or chaste, but green and powerful, these virgins—able to resurrect the land and remake the world with the coming of every spring.

Ése es el nombre. Elena sabe desde hace un tiempo que ya no es ella la que manda sobre algunas partes de su cuerpo, los pies por ejemplo. Manda él. O ella. Y se pregunta si al Parkinson habría que tratarlo de él o de ella, porque aunque el nombre propio le suena masculino no deja de ser una enfermedad, y una enfermedad es femenina. Como lo es una desgracia. O una condena.

Pygmalion: "A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Donít eat too many almonds; they add weight to the breasts.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Girls usually have a paper m'chÈ face on their wedding day.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

Minne, pâle comme une nuit de lune, se réchauffe, un peu blessée, à ce feu de couleurs, et parfois, toute nue au soleil, un miroir à la main, cherche en vain, à travers son corps mince, l'ombre plus noire de son squelette élégant.

She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.

Her stormy eyes, her sincere sensuality, the softness of her skin and her voice

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Half-starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.

Our schools kept from us, for as long as they could, the dangerous, disruptive, upsetting knowledge of our own female nature.

Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle.