Quotes About Femininity

Could she have known that it was her own image that, Waldo wrote, "rose before me at times into heroical & godlike regions, and I could remember no superior women"? Indeed, to Waldo, who had once unkindly disrupted her Conversations on classical myth, Margaret was best compared to "Ceres, Minerva, Proserpine, and the august ideal forms of the Foreworld." He had not told her this, but perhaps somehow she knew.

But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way?

Anthropologie is not butch, phantom or otherwise. It is Disney with a slightly more sophisticated but no less carefully engineered aesthetic. It is to adult women what princesses are to little girls. It is a twirling motion in the form of an international brand.

Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?

Let us make pregnancy an occasion when we appreciate our female bodies.

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

The image of Eve is not our image of woman.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

The Shelly he knew had tried too hard to be sexy. This woman didn't bother with make-up or fixing her hair. Yet she was damn near irresistible. For a second he imagined this babe chasing him around like Shelly had… and letting her catch him. He'd have that sundress off her in no time.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

As mulheres, em instante, ficaram tema. Mulheres é bom quando não há amor, disse. Porque o amor é esquivadiço. A gente lhe monta casa, ele nasce no quintal. Vale a pena uma puta, miúdo. Gastamos o bolso, não o peito.

Donc, il est juste et vrai que la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez un homme est signe de sa virilité, et la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez une femme est signe de sa prostitution. Et il suffirait que toutes les femmes, ensemble, se virilisent, pour que le monde, le monde entier, se transforme en bordel. ( from "Roman avec cocaïne" )

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

Never underestimate a determined woman. Universes are flimsy things in their hands.

Pink Umbrella

Madame Maxime

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

f]emales are very interested in colonizing high-value male spaces," "[m]ale groups are subverted and redirected to fem-centric goals/visions if women are present and not managed with an iron fist."1

No matter how beautiful women are, they're always worried that they aren't attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don't, but even they appreciate the attention.

If I were a girl, I'd be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on," Will said. "Fuck, I'd take on the whole football team at one time." Burke ran his hand through Will's hair. "Careful," he said. "You don't want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then.