Quotes About Femininity

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

I am a woman now! It's true. No, honestly, I've never worn a bra in my life, ever!

A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

It's the moonlight. Makes all the girls look pretty.

Boobs are just inherently undignified.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.

Why? Why were most big things unladylike?

or she may have acted from pure caprice, for Joanna was ever as much woman as queen.

Ever since I was a little girl, I was taught that my primary purpose was to become a goddess in heaven so that I could multiply an earth. I wanted that. I wanted to become a goddess with my husband... to be eternally pregnant and look down on an earth and say, "That's mine, and all those babies down there, I had!

These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.

For men roses are friends, and for women roses are beauty.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed.

SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun 'tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...