Quotes about Femininity

Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere—of these things he was certain. Beside her the two dozen schoolgirls and débutantes, young married women and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, in the word's most contemptuous sense, breeders and bearers, exuding still that faintly odorous atmosphere of the cave and the nursery.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.

As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."1

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

Boobs are for breastfeeding.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.