Quotes About Femininity

Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit.

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

He had a man's voice already. He had everything but a man's brain.

We came together like months in a lunar year, measured in nights, dividing perfectly into female phases. Like women anywhere living in groups we had synchronous menses. And had no need of a wound, a puncture, to seal our bond.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size of the man and the dampness along the seam of my jeans. And this one is producing some serious humidity in my southern hemisphere.

Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

Thirty. "Something of the maiden's fragrance lingers with a woman until she is twenty-nine, but nothing is left about the body of the woman of thirty years.

At that same moment, I became convinced that somewhere another sad and pitiful girl was doing the wash and smiling softly at this very moon.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

There Is Nothing Like a Dame.

The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.

What? A character almost as awful as Phaedre, and quite as desolate as Antigone, represented by a graceful coquette in point lace and pearls, who will take poison as sweetly as if it were a cup of coffee, and will die with elaborate care not to tumble her train? Preposterous!

Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love.

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.