Quotes About Femininity

lavish, dark hair of hers over one shoulder to

She reminded Lars of one of Renoir's women: small-faced and round-eyed with curly hair piled on top of her head, creamy-skinned, plump, and bosomy, possibly a little vacuous,

A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas

And then everyone's like, Oh, Pandora. Where's your willpower? You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done.

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

Sex is not a discrete body of knowledge that can be isolated from the rest of life. Talking about sex implies talking about relationships, self-esteem, feminism and femininity, gender differences, marriage and maternity, men and paternity.

For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

So she settled for the truth. "I think you a man." "Is that an insult?" "No." Anything male is dragged around by its breeches, and she holds the string attached to them.

I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what I'd become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilisation, right and wrong.

Lynn didn't know my mother, but she's the type of person my mother loved: quick, outspoken, a thin but charming layer of femininity covering a masculine confidence and drive.

thin but charming layer of femininity covering a masculine confidence and drive.

what I'd become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilization, right and wrong.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Helena Rubinstein, captures this concept perfectly: "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Whatever the case may be, if the father is not there for his daughter in a committed and responsible way, encouraging the development of her intellectual, professional, and spiritual side and valuing the uniqueness of her femininity, there results an injury to the daughter's feminine spirit.

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.

Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a body designed to expel its own replacement.

so i wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother.

Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...

A WEAK MAN CAN'T LOVE A STRONG WOMAN. HE WON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER.

Don't mistake softness for weakness. Only a strong man can be soft with a woman.