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Quotes About Femininity

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
~ Padma Lakshmi
My mother was really beautiful, and I had to deal with her being objectified my entire childhood. But she also had this depth and purity that was almost otherworldly.
~ Adrianne Lenker
My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves.
~ Lucy Worsley
I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on - or don't put on.
~ Danielle Brooks
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
~ Helen Fielding
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.
~ Nina Garcia
I always look up to girls like Beyonce or Anna Kournikova. Girls who do something well but also look good. I think every girl loves to feel sexy and, sure, there's some creeps out there, but I'm putting myself out there. I guess I'm just working with what I have.
~ Alana Blanchard
When I'd hang out with guy friends, I'd say things like 'I just don't get along with other girls.' Just so they could think I was cooler, you know? Shamelessly trying to level myself up by putting other women down. God it's so embarrassing to admit, but it's important cause I want people to know about the growth. That I'm not perfect.
~ Rupi Kaur
I can actually dress up or bring my femininity in and bring my own flair and my own stout - and still be great at what I do. We're created different to be unique!
~ Michelle Carter
I feel like my figure is a challenge because I'm quite flat chested but I've got a booty so I've got to look for the right things.
~ Ellie Goulding
I never wore flats: The higher the shoe, the better.
~ Patti Hansen
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
~ Anne Enright
I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.
~ Raquel Welch
I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them.
~ Nina Simone
Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.
~ Lesley Sharp
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
~ Alan Furst
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
~ J. Paul Getty
I want my man to be the man, and I want to be the woman. Maybe that's not for everyone, but that's how we function.
~ Sara Evans
I love working with women directors because of their emotional functionality and can undeniably connect with them on a fairly personal level.
~ Vikrant Massey
I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.
~ Florence King
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin
~ Florence King
How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?
~ Florence King