Quotes About Femininity

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Be a girl with a mind, a bi... with an attitude, and a lady with class.

I love being a girl because I love to shop, get nails done and do all of the girly things we do! I also love how while I can be a girly girl, I can also have fun and get down and dirty like the boys.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

Ninoska mi sorrise come non potrebbe mai fare un uomo, come se le donne capissero tutto le une delle altre, dall'eternità.

Que Neruda me perdone, pero a veces sucede que me canso de ser mujer.

Ha comprendido que la mujer, que una sola mujer es más fuerte que todos los hombres juntos, y de ahí que los hombres necesiten apretarse entre ellos como niños débiles y asustadizos, necesiten fanfarronear y bravuconear y hablen del amor como de una matufia urdida por ellos para hacer caer a las mujeres en la celada del sexo. No hay que creerles, no hay que preocuparse. Llegado el caso, una mujer puede con una sola mirada desbaratar toda esa falsa tramoya de los hombres.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Not that it will be easy for you," Miryam continued. "But for the moment - look - it's a wonderful, mysterious thing to be a girl." And, looking at her reflection, Laura thought this might be true.

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched the earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong. My grandmothers were full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay With veins rolling roughly over quick hands They have many clean words to say. My grandmothers were strong. Why am I not as they?

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.