Quotes About Femininity

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Let still the woman takeAn elder than herself, so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl

Lo scempio che san fare le femmine, manco i corvi ... Stasera te le ritrovi all'assemblea di sezione con certe muste che fai meglio a guardarti le unghie se non vuoi che te la grattino loro la rogna. Stanno tutte ingruppate, che paiono una cosa sola, un mostro bertoccuto e chioccio, con certe grinfie dritte e puntute come ferri da maglia.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books...

Just what are women, exactly? Should men be classed in the same species as women? Why are they so different? Books and films may say it is better to be a woman, but I cannot believe it. I have never felt it to be true, and I never will.

Sunset, springtime, the blue of the sea, the stars in the sky, all the things that entrance us exert their magic only in the orbit if woman.

the one, true unique beauty is woman. The rest, all the rest, exists simply to adorn her.

That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas.

I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright.

We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.

Shepherdess of the Sphinxes by Leonor Fini.

Shakti always said we should have a guy we wanted to keep shaving our legs for. I knew what she meant." pg. 129

If this is where we do female bonding, aren't we supposed to put on an Aretha Franklin song?

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty we

The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul.

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

A woman, she is born with the power to save and love, her existence is based on the truthfulness in her eyes.

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.