Quotes About Femininity

The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other their histories.

Est-ce qu'une femme a besoin de savoir jouer et chanter ? Ah ! mon petit, tu es trop bête... Nana a autre chose, parbleu ! et quelque chose qui remplace tout.

Mais dites-vous bien une chose: une femme vous roulera toujours quand elle voudra en prendre la peine.»

Todas las mujeres conciben ideas, pero no todas conciben hijos

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.

Her face is rounder than the moon

lucy went along with her mother because ginny wanted her to, because lucy felt it was what girls did with their mothers - watch in silence as, under the cones of dryers, mothers fell out of listening range and into the distance.

At the balls he took me to there were many beautiful young women who didn't say a word. They answered every question with a shrug or a smile. If champagne got spilt down their dresses they only sighed; when the full moon slid out from behind the castle they watched it in silence. I could not understand it. Had they sold their voices too? Even their bodies were silent, always upright, never loosening their lines. They walked like letters on a page.

I think about pasta in the shape of Hello Kitty, stockings with diamond seams up the back, Marilyn's crumbling cake-mascara, and Liz Taylor's new white hair. I haven't got time for the trivials.

pretty girl

There are some nasty bitches out there. If they don't dab the front end, they probably don't wipe the back end. That's women of all colors and races. Guess what? I'm not one. I smell nice at all times.

I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

Si eres una hembra y tenías talento, la vida resultaba una trampa, no importaba el camino que eligieras. O te sumergías en la vida doméstica (y tenías fantasías a lo Walter Mitty para fugarte) o suspirabas por la vida doméstica en todo tu arte. Nunca podías escapar a la condición de hembra. El conflicto estaba escrito en tu mismísima sangre. Miedo a volar

Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.

In this instance, however, the answer was quite straightforward: "Men want women beautiful, romantic... birds of paradise instead of hurrying brown hens," said Bazaar in October 1945. As families were reestablished, there was a move toward a celebratory fashion of fecundity, with closer-fitting waists and rounder hips.

While not above the occasional exhibition of an almost theatrical feminine inferiority when petitioning for favours, the habitual self-projection of most was of upright strength, stoical fortitude and self-command.

Scholars of English literature have tried to chart the construction of domesticated femininity, although there is a certain confusion as to whether the new domestic woman was the epitome of bourgeois personality, or was an ornament shared by the middling ranks and the landed.

I'll be the girl they say pink things to, so weightless she arrives by ghost.

I'm told they buried they body with the garter belt still on.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

Tu pleures comme une femme ce que tu n'as pas su défendre comme un homme.

Your father says you're the smart one." "Not the pretty one," I said. I was mortified. "Oh, you can fake pretty," she said.