Quotes About Femininity

In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she

Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower; When these have gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and somber Delores, Our Lady of Pain?

oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.

As mulheres têm um incrível acesso à força e à sabedoria naturais se deuxadas por conta própria.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

fBy living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

It deified a certain posture: static, cream-shouldered, jutting hips, cigarette poised between lipstick and eternity.

Daughter, I'm not crying now because I'm fed up or regret that the Lord created me a woman. No, it's not that. It's just that I'm sad about my life and my youth that have come and gone without my knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman. knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.

some women turn frogs into princes. But that takes a queen, not a princess — or a shrew. Like most women, you, my dear, turn princes into frogs!

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. "It

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and even the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world.

Virginia and Vanessa were often thought scruffy. Vanessa rapidly decided that untidiness and dirt were infinitely preferable to being 'a Town Lady'; the writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards.

In this culture, where energy and egotism are rewarded in the young and good-looking, plain aging women are supposed to be self-effacing, uncomplaining--to take up as little space and breathe as little air as possible.

O violet-haired, holy, honeysmiling Psapfo

The more powerful a woman is under patriarchy, the more 'unsexed' she becomes in the eyes of others as her female cultural identity recedes beneath the mantle of male-identified power and the masculine images associated with it. With men the effect is just the opposite: the more powerful they are, the more aware they are of their manhood. In other words, in a patriarchal culture, power looks sexy on men but not on women.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.

Strapless bras? Well let's just say, I'm the kind of girl who likes things sufficiently strapped.

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

You're strictly a tulip girl—a red tulip girl.

No se vestía para atraer miradas de aprobación de su marido ni de ninguna multitud, sino para conformarse a un propio ideal secreto. Una fantasía tomada de una novela decimonómica, una imagen tanto intemporal como perenne. Una heroína romántica de su propia creación.

always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to make her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.