Quotes About Femininity

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes not in her physical appearance. Eyes are the doorway to her heart, the place where love truly resides.

Only real men can handle truly delicate women.

It's okay for a good girl to be a little bad from time to time...Keep us boys on our toes.

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

The trick with women is knowing when to just let them talk.

I also did something that seems to come naturally to females, although I am sure we are not taught to do it; I placed my underwear in the middle of the stack of clothing.

I swear to God I can't remember when I had a handbag. I know for some woman it's like an eleventh finger and you don't even think about it, even if you change every day. But I can't remember the handbag either. Who can run with a handbag?

We were women together

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

A very ladylike bosom," she said, approvingly. "There's nothing there," I complained. The clerk grinned. "I have been fitting bras for twenty-five years and no one ever thinks her breasts are good enough," she said. "You'll save yourself a lot of unhappiness if you accept and enjoy what you have. Neat little breasts are very chic.

was magnificent. Her long, black hair hung down to her waist and her soft golden skirt caught on the grass as she walked, released and then caught again. She wore a purple tunic with a woven leather belt and a medallion that hung low on one hip. On her shoulder, she carried a

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.

Public speech was a—if not the—defining attribute of maleness. Or, to quote a well-known Roman slogan, the elite male citizen could be summed up as vir bonus dicendi peritus, 'a good man, skilled in speaking.' A woman speaking in public was, in most circumstances, by definition not a woman.

But all tactics of that type tend to leave women still feeling on the outside, impersonators of rhetorical roles that they don't feel they own. Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.