Quotes About Femininity

With a low bow, she is gone in a haze of roses and hope

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers. As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, Petra said.

Very thin ladies, any age, with hand sewing on them, have always frightened me, beginning with a rich great-aunt and her underwear embroidered by nuns. The more bones that show on women the more inferior I feel.

God has stamped "lifegiver" on all women, regardless of the role we play.

Maybe why I want Kayo to beat me up is to prove he's a man and I'm a woman," she mused to Dr. Orne. "I want him to be aggressive.

bathroom, moving like a woman in a trance.

Something is happening, all right. But it's perfectly natural, Lily. Stop worrying and let me show you what it means to be a woman." Her

Sandy laughed, and I realized that I liked her, in spite of everything. Yes, she was beautiful. Yes, Sonterra obviously thought she was hot. But that didn't mean she and I were automatic enemies, duty-bound to compete. That was not my typical approach to life and femininity, and I suspected it wasn't hers, either.

What would fighting like a girl look like if it was done right?

For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?

I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?

The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

You think you are about to possess what men have hopelessly yearned for throughout the ages: the soul of an innocent, trusting, dependent child inside the opulent body of a radiantly lovely woman.

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity

Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French. Le galbe evase de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur? Some day he would compile a dictionary for the use of novelists. Galbe, gonfle, goulu: parfum, peau, pervers, potele, pudeur: vertu, volupte

Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily.

Fanno delle cose, le donne, alle volte, che c'è da rimanerci secchi. Potresti passare una vita a provarci: ma non saresti capace di avere quella leggerezza che hanno loro, alle volte. Sono leggere dentro. Dentro.

Mma Ramotsew accepted her large slice of cake and looked at the rich fruit within it. There were at least seven hundred calories in that, she thought, but it did not matter; she was a traditionally built lady and she did not have to worry about such things.

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.