Quotes About Femininity

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special shoes!

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man a friendship of her kind.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.