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Quotes About Femininity

My mother is a beauty.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
With women the heart argues, not the mind.
~ Matthew Arnold
And there are flowers in her hair, always jasmine.
~ Unknown
A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.
~ Maureen Daly
The psychology of men and women in our civilization does not signal an eternal masculine or feminine...We must not...consider the attributes of the woman or the man as natural, but as historical.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it
~ Unknown
She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.
~ Max Allan Collins
I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
~ Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
~ Maya Angelou
She was beautiful and had a way of manipulating a man with a terrifying combination of tears and seductive smiles.
~ Unknown
Žena je uvijek zanimljiva kad je zaljubljena tada je pametnija odlu?nija ljupkija nego ikad. Muškarac je rastresen ili grub ili nerazmišljen ili pla?ljivo nežan.
~ Meša Selimovi?
All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight and plait their hair or pull it back off their faces with fish oil. There were shoes that laced up with a hundred eyelets, and corsets that required a special hook to open. Women were all in it together back then, as opposed to now, when one woman's experience could differ so greatly from another's that you never knew who you were talking to.
~ Meg Wolitzer
It could make you slightly psychotic if you really focused on the idea that girls had holes under their clothes. Holes that suggested, in the absence they pointed out, that they could be filled, and that you could do the filling.
~ Meg Wolitzer
But it had seemed, when Cory broke up with Greer, that she became like a piece of knotted wire. Where were the qualities he had loved in her? He had taken on some of them himself. Because of course everyone was soft and hard. Skeleton and skin. But women claimed for themselves the province of softness, which men cast off. Maybe it was easier to say you liked it in a woman. But really, maybe you wished you had it yourself.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I like being a girl. I just want to be the one who says what that means.
~ Meg Wolitzer
He loved the way women, clothed, had a bosom, a single entity, but when unclothed, it cleaved into two discrete parts, two breasts, like the way you could separate an orange into halves by hooking thumbs into it.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Girls weren't weak. They had a softness sometimes, but not all the time.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Because of course everyone was so soft and hard. Skeleton and skin. But women claimed for themselves the province of softness, which men cast off. maybe it was easier to say you liked it in a woman. But really, maybe you wished you had it yourself.
~ Meg Wolitzer
She was sexy in a malnourished way; you felt that if you took her to bed, first you would have to give her a hot meal.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.
~ Megan Abbott
Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder.    The
~ Megan Abbott
I had a rule about stilettos, and it was this: I didn't wear them unless I planned to kick ass in them. Stilettos were for striding and sauntering, never sulking.
~ Unknown
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
~ Megan Fox
I'm not sure a man can ever understand the complicated matter of feminine relationships.
~ Megan Hart