Womanly Quotes

#1. I like clothes that make me feel good. My favourite designers include Michelle Jonas and Dolce & Gabbana. Their clothes make me feel as if I'm Sophia Loren - really womanly.

Heather Graham

#2. I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

Banks

#3. Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling ... it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.

Jayne Mansfield

#4. It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Susan B. Anthony

#5. If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.

Gillian Flynn

#6. A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

George Gissing

#7. Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was slain by Perseus. The luminous winged stallion of the Greeks emerged from the life force of womanly wisdom in its darkest, most disturbing aspect,

Linda Kohanov

#8. As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#9. I prefer my body after I've had kids to before. I like a womanly, shapely figure. I'm more secure as a woman. I know who I am.

Stephanie Seymour

#10. Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Ellen Key

#11. Until I came and saw the water falling,
its lace legs and its womanly arms sheeting down,
while something howled like thunder,
over the rocks,
all day and all night -
unspooling.

Mary Oliver

#12. From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.

E. M. Broner

#13. To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Jane Harrison

#14. Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Anais Nin

#15. Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's someting I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

Christina Ricci

#16. I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!

Abbey Clancy

#17. In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.

Gillian Flynn

#18. But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination.

George Eliot

#19. I love life and I love that about people ... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people ... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time ... smart and very

Jewel

#20. In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form.

Victor Hugo

#22. I hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person ... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.

Miranda Hart

#23. Brother Ralston smiles fondly, only too willing to believe in my womanly frailty. If it weren't to my advantage, I'd slap the smile from his face.

Jessica Spotswood

#24. Like most girls she had been brought up on the warm milk prepared by Annie Fellows Johnston and on novels in which the female was beloved because of certain mysterious womanly qualities, always mentioned but never displayed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

Lucy Larcom

#26. Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Mason Cooley

#27. Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

George Gascoigne

#28. She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Louisa May Alcott

#29. I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

Emmy Rossum

#30. Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

Sally Kempton

#31. I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

Reese Witherspoon

#32. I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Vivienne Westwood

#33. Manly deeds, womanly hands.

John Hodgman

#34. I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

Jennie Garth

#35. To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Jane Harrison

#36. Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

Blanche Willis Howard

#37. I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#38. And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city's hand out to the country; and were the end of the past because they spanned not only distance and deep water but dreams and time.

Mark Helprin

#39. Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Agatha Christie

#40. What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#41. What is important to me, is to make a girl look better. To really make the most of all her womanly wiles. It's all about accentuating a waist, perking up a bust line, rounding out hips; things that just make you look in the mirror and say, "I look awesome."

Byron Lars

#42. Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Diana Gabaldon

#43. Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Ann Coulter

#44. Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#45. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

#46. The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

Pamela Anderson

#47. Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

George Bernard Shaw

#48. Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Kristen Wiig

#49. I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

Tea Leoni

#50. I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

Alison Lohman

#51. In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#52. In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.

Will Durant

#53. What has that little tramp got that we haven't?" asked the brunette archly. "We've got a whole lot more." The red head ran her hands suggestively down her womanly curves. "And there are three of us,

Phillip W. Simpson

#54. Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Ian McEwan

#55. Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

Louisa May Alcott

#56. I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Kate Winslet

#57. Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

Sheridan Smith

#58. Womanly Power: Hurting a man and then making him apologize.

Rebecca Warner

#59. While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Friedrich Schiller

#60. In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

Louise Erdrich

#61. I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

Coco Rocha

#62. Sol? As much as I appreciate you making me this lovely womanly blanket ... you think we could try lying like normal people who don't want to merge into one being?"
"Can't have that. We'd make one gross merged being. Your ass and my ass together? The universe would run in terror.

Charlotte Stein

#63. They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.

Harriet Jacobs

#64. Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#65. Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Ellen Key

#66. I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

Joely Fisher

#67. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.

Virginia Woolf

#68. How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Christopher Morley

#69. Fire is no laughing matter. In a drunken attempt to appear womanly, my neighbor tried to burn her pubes off when she was fifteen, but it hurt too much to get it completely smooth. My friend had sex with her two years later and said her clit looked like a chestnut. I've been pro-bush ever since.

Brian Celio

#70. Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Billy Sunday

#71. The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

H.L. Mencken

#72. I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes.

Joan Sims