Quotes About Femininity

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

The most womanly woman.

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

I used to love sitting on the bathroom floor in my pajamas and watching my mother get ready for an event. She'd stand in front of her vanity and apply bright red and blue makeup - it was the '80s, you know.

I like a pretty, undone look. So I wash my hair every other day so it doesn't get dried out, and I let it air-dry. If I want soft waves, I'll braid it first.

There is nothing better than leaving a salon with freshly cut hair, swishing it about proudly all the way home.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.

'Pretty' is such a weak word.

I'm not a strong woman at all. And I'm not a feminist. In fact, I'm very weak.

Growing up I was always stronger than all the other kids. I wasn't allowed to play with the other girls because they were too weak. And I had to be careful with boys because I'd always be hitting them and I'd get into trouble for hurting them.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!

I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

I like a girl who can be a girl but also ready to play basketball.