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Quotes About Femininity

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.
~ Unknown
Just in case you needed a reminding. There is one thing you can never take from a woman, her beauty.
~ Unknown
Ladies, there's nothing attractive about a woman being sloppy drunk...stop bragging about it like it's an accomplishment.
~ Unknown
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty
~ Unknown
I am independent but secretly I love being taken care of and spoiled. I think every woman does.
~ Unknown
Girls being insecure is a natural female trait if you ask me.
~ Unknown
Real girls aren't perfect. and perfect girls aren't real.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Not every woman was born with grace, but at least those of us that weren't have plenty of sass to make up for it.
~ Unknown
Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.
~ Unknown
Look like a girl, act like a lady. Think like a man and work like a boss...
~ Unknown
Women can be the most vicious creatures of this world and yet they are the most gentle angels in life.
~ Unknown
Einen perfekt austarierten Bogen hatte Odysseus sie genannt. Einen Fixstern. Eine Frau, die sich selbst genau kennt.
~ Madeline Miller
Si dice che le donne siano creature delicate, come fiori, come uova, come qulsiasi cosa che possa essere schiacciata in un momento di negligenza. Se mai ci avevo creduto, non era più così.
~ Madeline Miller
She turned before him slowly, showing the lushness of her figure as if she were roasting on a spit.
~ Madeline Miller
I could imagine my half-sisters with their long golden hair and painted eyes, bent on pretty knees.
~ Madeline Miller
Aquiles se sonrojó como si le hubieran abofeteado. Una cosa era llevar un vestido, impelido por la necesidad, y otra muy distinta que todos lo supieran. Nuestro pueblo reservaba los más feos apelativos para los hombres que actuaban como mujeres; semejantes insultos habían provocado la pérdida de muchas vidas.
~ Madeline Miller
It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.
~ Mae West
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
~ Mae West
The curve is more powerful than the sword.
~ Mae West
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
~ Mae West
And we have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it, with the eyes staying in the head.
~ Maggie Nelson
The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.
~ Maggie Nelson
Eleonora is a woman all too aware of her rarity and worth: she possesses not only a body able to produce a string of heirs, but also a beautiful face, with a forehead like carved ivory, eyes wide-set and deep brown, a mouth that looks well in both a smile and a pout. On top of all this, she has a quick and mercurial mind.
~ Maggie O'Farrell