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“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.”
― Roman Payne

“And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.”
― M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine

“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“This was the first time I thought of S�� that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?”
― Roman Payne

“Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not.”
― Roman Payne

“I don't know what it is with you, but I somehow become more a woman when ever your around.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.”
― Roman Payne

“On nous exhorte: 'Soyez femmes, restez femmes, devenez femmes.' Tout être humain femelle n'est donc pas nécessairament une femme; il lui faut participer à cette réalité mystérieuse et menacée qu'est la féminité. (...) Celle-ci est-elle sécrétée par les ovoires? Suffit-il d'un jupon à frou-frou pour la faire descendre sur terre?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, I

“Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.”
― Erica Jong

“It's no wonder to my mind, when I hear ladies talk such a deal about being ladies-- and when they're such fearful, delicate, dainty ladies too-- I say it's no wonder there are no longer any saints on earth___”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“They [heterosexual cis women] are accepted in the straight mainstream way more readily than I [trans woman] will ever be. But they are marginalized in their day-to-day lives because they are feminine. To argue that they are reinforcing the binary, or the patriarchy or the hegemonic gender system, because they are conventional feminine (as opposed to subversively feminine) essentially implies that they are enabling their own oppression. This is just another variation of the claim that rapists make when they insinuate that the woman in question was 'asking for it' because of what she was wearing or how she behaved.”
― Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

“Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,
And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,
Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,
And take youre aventure of the repair
That shal be to youre hous by cause of me,
Or in som oother place, may wel be.
Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath

“The valley spirit, undying
Is called the Mystic Female
The gateway of the Mystic Female
Is called the root of Heaven and Earth
It flows continuously, barely perceptible
When utilized, it is never exhausted”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I am not a Damsel In Distress who needs a Prince Charming. I am more of Rani Laxmi Bai who rides a Sturdy Horse.”
― Nikita Dudani

“The day of the ball came at last, and with it the tedious and delightful rituals of femininity.”
― Sarah E. Morin

“i witnessed her heart shatter into
a million pieces as she found herself becoming immune to her emotions
with her lungs incapable of letting the air out and the pain buried within her
unable to burst into tears, she bled in silence.”
― Noah Sammak

“No, No and No. I'm not desperate unlike what you think. I'm not like the madding crowd. I'm a different breed of woman. The sort of woman who's unstoppable once she's set her mind onto something. I march to the beat of my own drum like a free-spirit and I know exactly what I want out of life. So get it out of your head honey.”
― Anne Bancroft

“Uses her femininity to hide her humanity.”
― Jack Heath, Headcase

“No, No and No. I'm not desperate unlike what you think. I'm not like the madding crowd. I'm a different breed of woman. The sort of woman who's unstoppable once she's set her mind onto something. I march to the beat of my own drum and I know exactly what I want out of life. So get it out of your head honey.”
― Anne Bancroft

“Italian men like them [Eastern European women immigrants], several of the latter have told me, because they are more feminine and not 'feminists'.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“kadınlar olarak, kendimizin ölü ve parçalanmış kısımlarımızı geri çağırmak, hayatın kendisinin ölü ve parçalanmış kısımlarını geri çağırmak bizim meditasyon pratiğimizdir. Ölmüş olandan yeniden bir şey yaratan, her zaman için iki taraflı bir arketiptir. Yaratıcı Anne her zaman Ölüm Anne'dir de ve bunun tersi de geçerlidir. Bu ikili doğa ya da ikili görev nedeniyle bizi bekleyen en önemli iş, çevremizde ve içimizde neyin yaşaması, neyin ölmesi gerektiğini anlamayı öğrenmektir. Yapmamız gereken, ikisinin de zamanlamasını kavramak; ölmesi gerekenlere ölmeleri için, yaşaması gerekenlere yaşamaları için izin vermektir.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Feminity for me was discovering you when I took you for a ride on my Motorcycle!”
― Avijeet Das

“You're right - women shouldn't compete over their pain. It's enough that we hurt.”
― Laura Jarratt, Disappeared

“There are women with magic in their eyes.”
― Lowrey E. Gray, 42

“It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries castration as a mask.”
― Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

“The river has a distinct place in the mythologies of the people because in their universe, water is supreme. They know that all rivers are maternal and therefore capable of birthing things.”
― Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities