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 PayneTags: courting affection girl courtesy gentleman chivalry masculinity roman-payne bruise delicate feminity linden linden-tree
And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.
M. AgeyevTags: prostitution masculinity brothels feminity female-versus-male men-versus-women womankind
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 PayneTags: life truth girls women romantic beauty life-lessons life-and-living novel life-and-death angel romanticism keats barcelona roman-payne the-wanderess feminity truth-inspirational beauty-is-truth wanderess
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 PayneTags: age girls life-experience youth womanhood manhood roman-payne feminity life-phases
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 PayneTags: women foresight females feminine roman-payne feminity womankind
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 BeauvoirTags: feminism womanhood feminity
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