Quotes About Femininity

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

Hair is truly priceless, as we can never account for the hours or the price to the psyche and self-esteem of women who are constantly obsessing about what is happening on top of their heads.

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed

The eagle is your mother, your aunt, your girl cousins – the eagle is any woman. Maybe even a white woman. When you have trouble, go to another woman. She will understand. And she can help you.

Elle approchait et sa plume légère au chapeau d'ombre, se penchait sur moi m'effleurant la joue. (extrait de « La Dame au petit chien », p.161, revu par Alain Bosquet)

She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.

Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.

I honestly cannot tell whether you are the most practical women I have ever met or the most deranged." "Why can't I be both

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

I come from a long line of madwomen, and of this I am proud.

What your mother left undone, women who are not your mother may do. Women who are not your lover love you.

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.