Quotes About Femininity

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Sì is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.

A quiet woman is a firearm with a silencer.

I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions!

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

My friend, she is a woman. No, no, you are deceived--she is a queen.

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.

o encanto indefinido que está para a mulher como o perfume está para a flor e o sabor para o fruto. Porque não basta uma flor ser bela, nem um fruto ser agradável à vista

Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries.

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

They were of the female persuasion and richly endowed with vice.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.

She was beautiful. That's why her name was April.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.

Even now as the graves of these women went untended, and their passings unmourned, the seeds they had scattered turned the hillsides red and orange from May to September. Some called the pirates' bounty flame trees, but to us they were known as flamboyant trees, for no one could ignore their glorious blooms, with flowers that were larger than a man's open hand. Every time I saw them I thought of these lost women. That was what happened if you waited for love.

In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.

she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks—the slivered shards of mad sunlight in her eyes. She paused, still on the granite steps, touched the brim of her hat and the flying hem of her skirt—felt the wind rush up her cuffs and rattle her sleeves.

Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity.

I am a woman of violent contradiction.

In moments like this she thought of all the little girls who grew into adulthood and old age as a sort of cipher alphabet for all those who didn't. Their lives would somehow be inextricably attached to all the girls who had been killed.