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That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare · 1594Cause she got a great ass...and you got your head all the way up it! — Lt. Vincent Hanna · 1995That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it. — Max Bialystock · 1967Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Her walk revealed her as a true goddess. — Virgil · 19 BCAll 12 quotes →
Patriarchy3 quotes
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. — Laura Mulvey · 1975
Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you'd like to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket. — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. — Laura Mulvey · 1975
Kindness1 quote
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare · 1594
They don't care. Just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull. — Joe (Some Like it Hot) · 1959
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. — William Shakespeare · 1609
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. — Laura Mulvey · 1975
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare · 1594
Women1 quote
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925