Quotes About Femininity

I do like playing smart women who can be sexy and are taken seriously.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.

I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.

I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

I'd want to have Gisele Bundchen's body. Even though she's tall and skinny, she does have curves... and I think that's hot. Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.

How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?

Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.

A tall woman can be just as feminine as a petite woman.

I think the fact that we don't usually see 'normal' sized women on television has something to do with the reaction I had. I am quite tall - I am 5ft 8in and a definite size 12 - but you know this whole debate about my revealing too much flesh on TV has been blown out of proportion.

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

Makeup does a lot for your confidence. When I put makeup on, I walk taller. I smile more. I feel good. I know I look prettier. Even if I just put day makeup on.

Women want to be tamed.

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

The goal is not to make professions like nursing, social work, mental health, or teaching seem like masculine rather than feminine ones, but to emphasize a range of opportunities that they can provide for both men and women. We don't need to make men feel like being a nurse will somehow bolster their masculinity, just that it will not diminish it.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

She was a tall, firm, abundantly curvaceous, lovely with pollen-gold hair and a shape to make corpses kick open caskets.

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.

Washing the men's clothes, caring for their rooms, serving them at table, listening to their orations, but themselves remaining respectfully silent in public assemblages, the Oberlin "coeds" were being prepared for intelligent motherhood and a properly subservient wifehood. (Flexner 1959:30)

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.