276 Quotes About Femininity

although my body was yours for the night my heart never belonged to you.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

Your coat's a little shabby—but who cares? It doesn't keep people from asking you to dine. If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop—and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership.

ladies, don't be a woman of simple taste particularly in the way you look, or at least keep that to the minimum. You are a goddess, after all. Stop trying to look all humbled or modest. You've got to look and smell like a goddess who, in my opinion, is a woman that is constantly in touch with her own sensuality, which also means she's always on top of her game.

Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.

In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions.

I am no man

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

Old women’s houses feel like the safest place on earth. A shrine to functional femininity.