Quotes About Femininity

It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.

Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.

I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.

I pole-dance. I do. I do it at an aerobics center. Having done gymnastics for 13 years, I find it's one of the only things where I can still use my core and all my muscles. Plus, it's fun: You're a girl, and you get to dance around a pole!

Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake.

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.

A woman's body and a woman's image is a very political thing, so I trust another woman to understand what that's like and how to portray it in a way people can relate to.

It is a challenge to portray to women of different generations and their complexities and hopes and agonies as a woman.

I really like the way 'Bond' girls are portrayed on screen.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

I know that I'm very feminine and that I can pass in a lot of situations, but I think a lot of people's perceptions of me are also informed by my the pictures that I post online, which are as flattering as possible.

I'm like any other girl: I see the Instagram posts and the Tumblr stuff. I'm inspired by what my fellow girls are doing.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

Ultimately, I want to convey an image of a beautiful, strong, and confident woman.

I'm a woman of strong convictions.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

I love a good corset.

A corset is always challenging.

In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.

I prefer to be covered. I don't wear a lot of low-cut things. I'd rather keep the attention to my brain, my face.