Quotes About Femininity

A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

My lady, watchful and quiet as the cold stars in the wintry sky, looked up at these casements with an earnest and scrutinizing gaze. One of the windows was shrouded by a scanty curtain of faded red; and upon this curtain there went and came a dark shadow, the shadow of a woman with a fantastic head dress, the shadow of a restless creature, who paced perpetually backward and forward before the window.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")

I feel, that i am neither a philosopher, nor a heroine – but a woman, to whom education has given a sexual character.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

I have the personality, the nature, of Napoleon, albeit a feminine translation.

Women remember. Our bodies remember. Every part of us remembers that has ever happened. Every touch, every feel, everything is there in our skin, ready to be awakened, revived.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

Maud Wainwright, a big, irregularly handsome woman, probably fifty and not ashamed of it

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

Starving is the feminine thing to do these days, the way swooning was in Victorian times.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.