Quotes About Femininity

Des milliers de filles ont monté un escalier, frappé à une porte derrière laquelle il y avait une femme dont elles ne savaient rien, à qui elles allaient abandonner leur sexe et leur ventre. Et cette femme, la seule personne alors capable de faire passer le malheur, ouvrait la porte, en tablier et en pantoufles à pois, un torchon à la main : "C'est pour quoi, mademoiselle?

Yo también caí en la trampa de la mujer total, orgullosa de ser por fin capaz de conciliarlo todo, la subsistencia, un hijo y tres cursos de lengua francesa, guardiana del hogar y dispensadora del saber, superwoman, no solo intelectualmente hablando, en resumidas cuentas, armónica. Vía libre al lirismo cuando lo demás, la reflexión en particular, ha desaparecido.

Sentiment d'être composée de multiples morceaux de femmes; il y a en moi de la Dalida, Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Colette, etc... même Sand.

Je soupçonne cela aussi: est-ce qu'on a envie d'être assise sur un banc à gratter comme une écolière quand on a - même refoulée, niée - l'expérience sexuelle d'une femme?

Et devant toutes ces femmes qui, naturellement, se détestent toutes entre elles.

My whole story as a woman: going down a flight of stairs, and hanging back at each step.

I thought that all men existed just so they could have accidents, drink too much, and die. I thought that I was lucky to be a girl.

Il m'arrivait d'oublier que j'était enceinte de deux mois. C'est sans doute à cause de cet effacement de l'avenir, par lequel l'esprit endort lui-même l'angoisse de l'échéance, qu'il sait pourtant inévitable, que des filles laissaient passer les semaines, pus les mois, jusqu'au terme.

Dans la rue des Santi Apostoli, odeur forte du crottin, lavé régulièrement par les machines. Une grosse femme est assise sur le trottoir, on voit sa culotte très propre et blanche, soulignant une vulve proéminente. Depuis que ma mère est morte, je ne détourne plus les yeux de telles scènes avec gêne.

It honestly affects my mental health, social media, on a really profound level. Because I'm constantly being bombarded with an image of femininity that I feel I have to adhere to. And I think there's a lot of pressure in this industry, as well, being constantly discriminated on your aesthetic appearance.

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

It would be prudish to say, 'I don't want to be a prop in a film,' because there are certain films I've loved doing, as I have looked very glamorous in them.

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.

Men are very protective, and women are nurturing.

I've always had long hair and it's something I'm proud of.

I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of all ages.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

What's more, we are born women. It mat be we're unqualified for deeds of virtue: yet as the architects of every kind of mischief, we are supremely skilled.

There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one.