Quotes About Femininity

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Just as Diana Prince is never around when Wonder Woman shows up, Venus is either a Morning Star or an Evening Star, never both simultaneously.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. (Nero Wolfe)

I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art for us females.

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.

thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!

They glow rather than shine. The light within or from above appears to suffuse the body. Shine, on the other hand, is light bouncing back off the surface of the skin. It is the mirror effect of sweat, itself connoting physicality, the emissions of the body and unladylike labour, in the sense of both work and parturition. In a well-known Victorian saw, animals sweated, and even gentlemen perspired, but ladies merely glowed. Dark

Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say 'I am a woman' all day long.

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

Women, he sneered, what are they good for? Laundry and fucking. Ramsay wondered if Gerrit had actually met Nellie. His mother seemed good for neither of those activities, but then Nellie wasn't really a woman, she was an element, like iron.

You can't have it both ways," one of her girlfriends said. "Tough and tender, men are like steaks, it's one or the other." Tough and tender, a contradiction in terms, Hegelian synthesis.

Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select?

And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world. Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better.

Most women are moody and whimsical.

She liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction.