Quotes About Femininity

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

Still, a really heavy period should cheer me up.

Tell me, Was Venus more beautiful Than you are, When she topped The crinkled waves, Drifting shoreward On her plaited shell? Was Botticelli?s vision Fairer than mine; And were the painted rosebuds He tossed his lady Of better worth Than the words I blow about you To cover your too great loveliness As with a gauze Of misted silver?

Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.

these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.

And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't.

Women must be weak to love a baby enough to hold it to their breast. Women's hearts must be weak to sacrifice for their children. Women must be weak to take the seed of the man. Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman's words are lies." 

But the way an eloi has to darken her eyelashes every morning, cover her skin with colored cream, powder her nose and forehead all day so it doesn't shine, freshen her lipstick over and over, and then take it all off at night. It's like the myth of Sisyphus in Hades, rolling the rock up the hill just to watch it roll down again.

He had a special fondness for the moving parts of women, their wrists, their butterfly-shaped ankles, their shoulder blades like a swan's folded wings. In particular he treasured their knees, especially the back of them, where the skin was pale, milk-blue, with delicate fissures, little fine cracks, as in the most fragile old pieces of bone china. — John Banville, April in Spain (Hanover Square Press, 2021)

A chest out to here and legs that go all the way down to the floor.

Men, embryonically speaking, are imperfect women, as you know.

A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

Good girls go to Heaven, bad girls make you feel like you're in Heaven.

I love how you make me feel like a woman and a little girl all at the same time.

I'll never be the girl you want me to be because I'm a woman I need to be.

Act like barbie, smoke like marley.

'I can always relate to tampon commercials'...said no girl ever.

Being a girl relly sucks I would rather be a guy, I love to be outside and hang in the woods, I dont even want to have sex ever, it grosses me out I hve been in plenty relationships with men but I dont wanna have my period nd I hate having boobs and having to do my hair all of the time

Being able to go shopping and wear pink. Getting to date hot guys. Buying shoes and clothes. Spending other peoples money on lip gloss. Experimenting with cosmetics and makeup. Being beautiful lol. I love everything about being a girl.