Being a diva connotes a particular kind of womanly arrogance.
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She felt alienated from the womanly figure she was developing.
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"He gave me passion and that womanly experience," she said.
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"Women have to sound 'womanly' — caring, maybe deferential, soft," she said.
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And keep up my own sense of seductiveness and womanly power?
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Amy—despite being the youngest March—the most obviously and irrefutably womanly
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She was warm and womanly, but did not alienate more macho men.
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When I do my makeup, it makes me feel more womanly and strong.
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She doesn't rebuff "womanly" characteristics as a superhero — instead, those are her strengths.
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My education also taught me that I shouldn't engage only in womanly pursuits.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Womanly Hair™ is long and loose.
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SARAH LANE As I get older, I want to be more womanly in my dancing.
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Yet each found moments in the music to suggest the womanly longing that consumes them.
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I don&apost think being a woman/female is a matter of identity or womanly feelings.
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It was the epitome of effortless beauty, an essential womanly skill I vowed to learn someday.
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It feels womanly to understand, accept, and embrace that my neo-vagina isn't actually a vagina.
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Finally, for the first time, I feel like I have a bit more of a womanly figure.
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I know this may sound really strange, but I felt the most womanly while I was there.
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Flashes of his body reveal womanly breasts and an oversized hand covered in oozing scars and cuts.
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Her sparkling charisma can light up a room, and her lush womanly figure suggests fertility and eroticism.
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"I'll have to use my womanly powers to allure," she decides, wiping her nose with her sleeve.
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Only a few stage performers were able to maintain the appearance of womanly virtue while enjoying lucrative careers.
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A section describing how women were expected to do "womanly tasks" describes an environment that was cartoonishly sexist.
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"I thought, superficially, it would make me feel more womanly to have bigger breasts," McDougal, 45, tells PEOPLE.
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Dani Fine's music video for "Pink Visions" makes a strong case for the simple pleasures of womanly bonding.
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In Scandinavia, where gender equality is the most progressive, men choose "manly" professions and women choose "womanly" professions.
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At Cornering Harvey, the majority of attendees had heard about the workshop through the School of Womanly Arts.
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As a woman I used to think I had to have long, full, wavy hair to feel gorgeous and womanly.
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What chance did I have against Elizabeth, a woman of great womanly experience, when I had no experience at all?
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Some of the most powerful paintings in the Bell exhibit are the most domestic and "womanly" in their subject matter.
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Ms. Fleury, who showed a pop-up collection at Phluid Project last month, is especially partial to extravagant womanly flourishes.
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"I did a lot of work healing from the inside out, becoming more in touch with my womanly power," she says.
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"I did a lot of work healing from the inside out, becoming more in touch with my womanly power," she said.
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What were the reasons that led her to cast away her womanly expectations and embrace a body of might and brawn?
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Taller than all the other boys and girls, I was awkwardly out of place with my womanly 11-year-old body.
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Copeland, nearly flawless, brought out a womanly sensuality, her musicality suited to the crystalline exactitude of the solo to the celesta.
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His input of not being womanly enough pushed me into thinking how I could blend it while staying true to myself.
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Downhill, the Devil stands amid some shrubs, a rainbow-winged hermaphrodite with a sweet face, womanly hips, and three gold penises.
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"My mom would say, 'You have a body, and it's very womanly, and people don't understand that you're 12,'" the star explained.
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"I started taking birth control, and my body became more womanly — hips and thighs appeared," she told Vogue for their October issue.
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But I've had a difficult time connecting with the idea of being a big, womanly Kitri because it's actually not who I am.
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At 5 feet 3 inches tall, with her high ponytail, winged eyeliner and Nickelodeon channel beginnings, Ariana Grande appears both womanly and childlike.
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While she may have been prey to womanly vanities, she defied the natural order of her gender by having no husband or children.
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In the final image in the series, Serena embodies full womanly beauty, her pregnant figure revealingly wrapped in a flowing, earth-toned caftan.
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Women that wear dog hoodies, engage in some pegging, goof off, or do all the hallucinogens are no less womanly or capable of success.
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Rather, I felt duped into going along with society's expectations that I simply must be one, as a person with extremely "womanly" physical features.
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She, like her conductor, approached the piece thoughtfully and unsensationally: Now over 50, she was more womanly than girlish, more tenderly longing than petulant.
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Its simplistic reading of the queens — Mary is weak and womanly, Elizabeth is stern and unfeminine — is complicated by the force of both actresses.
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Doing so, she shows us what a deeply womanly role Beckett has written, albeit one whose tragedy is refracted through a distorting comic lens.
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Taddeo uses a clever device to construct one particular world of womanly scorn: Lina's chapters are set during her visits to a women's discussion group.
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The voice that answers back on the speaker isn't very different from Dr. Stevens': St. Thomian English, though a bit more standard, deep but womanly.
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"The only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place," Graham said.
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"The dolls are all very womanly," Andrea pushes back when I ask if she's comfortable with customers being attracted to something that looks so young.
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This contradiction is reflected in her fashion choices—she always wore lipstick and tight womanly sweaters but paired with schoolgirl style skirts, socks, and shoes.
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When women are moved to the center of the frame, they're expected to act more womanly — even when they're playing roles originally occupied by men.
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You don't need to be a shrink to associate red with power and boldness, as well as with important womanly issues, much as Bust does.
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Those pirates thrived under the protection of the island's capricious sultana, cruel in her poverty, weakness, fearful isolation, and unnatural state of unmarried womanly rule.
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"I decided to get breast augmentation before I decided I was going on Paradise — I wanted to have curves and feel womanly," contestant Danielle Maltby says.
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Fortunately now, there's a way to get that womanly figure that identifies us, that creates that fabulous, perfect and extreme hourglass figure that all women want.
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Growing up, my parents would have friends or other people over, and I would spend my time in the kitchen with the women, doing "womanly" activities.
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That's illegal, but it still happens to women all the timeBeyoncé said motherhood and age has made her feel 'more womanly and secure' with her curves
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A book like Rockhaven — one that's visually pleasing, collectively written, and which adds a palpable, dare I say, womanly touch, to oblique issues — is a balm.
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She bopped along to the song and then suddenly broke into delighted — some thought shady — giggles, seemingly in reaction to Grande's "womanly" hip-thrusting dance breakdown moment.
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The painting may spoof the convention of the classical nude, but it has its own defiant gorgeousness and seems to celebrate a more usual womanly body type.
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Maria Agresta, her Desdemona simple and good-hearted, sang with a tone that was sometimes full and womanly, sometimes cloudlike; Marco Vratogna was a blunt, somber Iago.
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She said in the suit that she had other work, too: The women at Upload were required to do what were called "womanly tasks," including cleaning up.
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The soul hits Irma Thomas had from 1959 into the 1960s seesaw between womanly sass ("Don't Mess With My Man") and lovesick loneliness ("Ruler of My Heart").
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How dare — after all society's requests — you take a confident and carefree depiction of a normal, healthy womanly body, promoting women's products to women, and deem it offensive.
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How dare- after all society's requests- you take a confident and carefree depiction of a normal, healthy womanly body, promoting women's products to women, and deem it offensive.
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There's something earnest about disillusionment by way of sex and heartbreak, and likewise something comforting when girls overcome obstacles (grief, illness, addiction) and emerge into wiser womanly selves.
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Ms. Melton's voice is clear, creamy and agile — if strident at the top of her range — and her Brünnhilde womanly: importuning and peace-seeking, rather than resolute or desperate.
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Like the fact that I felt more womanly with my bigger breasts and that I would never have to suck in my stomach if I wore a tight dress!
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"Am I a Jo or an Amy?" is as pleasurable a question to consider, as it is revealing of the tight strictures that govern our understanding of womanly selfhood.
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Home: It was a place for manly men and womanly women, a place impervious to the temptations of strong drink and atheism, of Catholicism, of Mormonism, adultery, and feminism.
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But reading the room, there was a clear sense of longing for Ms. Ferretti's romantic and womanly gowns of yesteryear, a niche in which she outshines almost all others.
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On a recent afternoon, Firestone and Nancherla swung by a Drybar salon on West Sixteenth Street to get womanly "uptinis," the blowout chain's name for a prom-ready updo.
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"You're in your womanly flowering time," Marilla informs a stricken Anne, who is convinced she's dying and is doing some sort of Lady Macbeth tribute act on her bloody undies.
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Looking out the bedroom window of her Cotswolds home, hair mussed, early morning sunlight filtering in, Brooks projects innocence, youth and womanly allure at once, just like the nightgown itself.
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She's so convincing in each fleeting identity that you do indeed start to realize how much of what has traditionally been regarded as manly or womanly is, well, just acting.
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After weeks of growing tension, Titch suggested at a group meeting that the men of Eden should do "manly" jobs, like fishing, and the women should do "womanly" jobs, like washing dishes.
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This is no less than what Stratford does in supporting a female Prospero in its concurrently running production of "The Tempest" by changing the word "father" to "mother" and designing womanly costumes.
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These characters didn't have the same high-powered careers or long, winding love stories that their more "mature" friends did, which made their lifestyles seem less worthy of admiration, and, somehow, less womanly.
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In his womanly warrior guise, Musidorus becomes the lust object of Philoclea's parents, Basilius (Jeremy Kushnier), the king of Arcadia, and his queen, Gynecia (Rachel York), a restless castle wife with feminist stirrings.
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Clinton has decades of experience trying, failing, and trying again to live up to both of those expectations — as impossible as it is to be not only a human leader but a womanly one.
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"At first I had a lot of reservations because I have such a strong look; ruffles could make me seem more girly versus womanly, which is how I feel when I'm pregnant," she says.
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These pieces work because they play on the notion of the feminine mystique (which is made up of a buffet of patriarchal ideology, self-help discourse, and essentialist ideas of what constitutes womanly power).
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Her new collection uses plenty of the stuff, though not in the scratchy, rough-hewed way the word "wool" implies, nor in the slightly tomboyish, horse-womanly manner of some of her earlier pieces.
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In fact, Barrie's text sets her up as an aspirational womanly figure, positioning her against competing visions of womanhood in Tiger Lily, a Native American Neverland princess, and Tinker Bell, Peter's fairy best friend.
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Belittling her intellect or acumen in competitive domains is certainly one way of doing that — especially when backed by the sense that it's in her womanly nature to be oriented to people rather than abstractions.
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"The only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place," Graham said, in the oddly stilted language that is apparently his confessional style.
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"I'm loving that whole phase, and I've raised a million dogs, so I feel like I've got that part of my womanly/motherly thing is full, so this is a whole new journey," she told the outlet.
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On the show, she tends to the family's needs, prepares meals, grows crops in the garden, and uses her womanly compassion to spare the show's "villain," Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris), from abandonment, time and time again.
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"Alita: Battle Angel" not only invokes this trope, but also fails to allow its own hero to stand on her own without allusions to her "womanly" form when Alita gets a new, sleeker, and more sophisticated cyborg body.
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Performers in the former category tend to embrace womanly (or "fishy") looks, haute couture, and Broadway-inspired dance numbers; within the latter, you'll find more androgynous (or "genderfuck") styling, DIY outfits, and productions that draw from performance art.
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"I'm loving that whole phase, and I've raised a million dogs, so I feel like I've got that part of my womanly/motherly thing is full, so this is a whole new journey," she added in the Extra interview.
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Rarely has she seemed as womanly, as self-assured — as towering (she's smaller than you might imagine) — as she was in this soulful, sophisticated performance, unveiled at the first program of City Center's Fall for Dance Festival on Tuesday.
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It also states that female employees were asked to do "womanly tasks" like clean the kitchen as well as come in on their days off to clean up after parties they weren't invited to, disposing of discarded condoms and underwear.
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The Beatles' non-macho appearance (at the time, their long hair and the falsetto in their songs made them seem womanly) directly led to the frank bisexuality and anti-masculine dress, though hypermasculine behavior, of rock musicians in the '80s.
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" And that connection is a must for Zayn who grew up in all female household, telling Elle that he, "enjoyed the womanly influence" of his mother and sisters, continuing, "I have a lot of respect for women because of them.
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But while I'm okay with my fashion and beauty choices leaning toward the whatever-is-easiest option, there's one arena where, feminism be damned, I feel guilty for failing to live up to my "womanly" duties, and that's the domestic sphere.
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"If someone told me 15 years ago that my body would go through so many changes and fluctuations, and that I would feel more womanly and secure with my curves, I would not have believed them," the "Formation" singer said.
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I never really did," Smith, 26, told British GQ. "Some days I've got my manly side and some days I've got my womanly side, but it's when I'm in the middle of that switch that I get really, really depressed and sad.
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It's no surprise then, that she eventually shaped a whole book around the idea of corporeal betrayals, sharing anecdotes of physiological humiliation — the sagging, the staining, the (failed) attempts to combat time and gravity — with a blend of wry humor and womanly swagger.
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Recently I began collecting them, fascinated by medieval preachers who considered wigs, painted faces, furs, and "wasteful sleeve-lengths, as well as womanly pride and passion" (as detailed by Christa Grössinger in her book Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art) to be sinful.
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Micaela Marini Higgs detailed this history and mindset for a Racked story in 2017: The use of womanly wiles and feminine trickery have been blamed for many things since the Garden of Eden, and makeup is seen as an extension of this inherent dishonesty.
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But in arenas concerning something other than temperament, women may be granted the benefit of the doubt—that is to say, women may benefit from angel-in-the-houseism when the misbehavior, alleged or real, has nothing to do with our expectations of womanly behavior.
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Barbara Hannigan, singing her first Mélisande with precision but never coldness, more womanly than girlish, is unequaled in the opera world for her physical control, and what she does here — a mixture of stillness, deliberation and sometimes what can only be called gymnastics — is riveting.
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Megan Fairchild, bubbly and daffy in Peter Martins's "Jeu de Cartes" (1992), has never been more adult or womanly than in two ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, "Russian Seasons" (2006) and "Odessa" (new last week — she was second-cast in the role made for Sterling Hyltin).
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Even in her saucier films, Day manages to evince a combination of sexual appeal and proper womanly chastity — such as in this scene from 1959's Pillow Talk, where she expresses overt horror and disgust when confronted with a bachelor pad and intimations of out-of-wedlock sex.
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Womanly, yet not traditionally "feminine", she showed that you can have a "cute face [and] chubby waist" (as she describes herself in 2005's "Lose Control") and also be seen as a fully sexual being, long before body positivity became a talked-about social issue within pop culture.
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This was the first "Emeralds" danced here since the death (this February) of the beloved ballerina Violette Verdy, who created one of its two lead roles; Ms. Peck, always at her most womanly in Verdy roles, caught facets of her legendary musicality, especially in the Arthurian drama of the partnered sequences.
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" Despite those queries, Beyoncé says her body confidence is at an all-time high: "If someone told me 15 years ago that my body would go through so many changes and fluctuations, and that I would feel more womanly and secure with my curves, I would not have believed them.
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Here, pre-"Pass Out" era Tinie Tempah pays homage to the very womanly virtue of patience: "Hold tight all the females who stuck by their man/ Through thick and thin/ You know we ain't always our best init/ And I know you had to put up with a lot of shit init". Quite.
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Coppola's visual indulgence makes it clear that Marie is a poor little rich girl, out of touch and a tragedy in her own life, but the drama of the intentionally anachronistic work comes from Dunst's ability to project womanly wisdom and girlishness, often at the same time — a recurring theme in her roles.
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While the troubling gender dynamics of the show were always overt — with Mr. Trump, when he wasn't nauseatingly inviting women up to his penthouse as a reward, alternately praising and shaming contestants for "using womanly charm" and "relying on your sexuality to win" — the class and racial tensions were more apparent, if indirect.
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" The term "women's film" refers to a mushy not-quite-genre of movies written by male screenwriters for an audience of women, starting in the silent film era, that concerned supposedly "womanly" issues like motherhood, the family, and the home — what feminist film critic Molly Haskell called "softcore emotional porn for the frustrated housewife.
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Nora, for her part, discovers that the frontier she is helping to "bring order" to is invested in her womanly independence only to the extent that it helps clear the way for a fuller implementation of settler society—a society that promises to reëstablish the same expectations of submission she left behind when she came West.
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I raise all this marital prehistory not to excuse the elements of the original "Kiss Me, Kate" that rankle our sensibilities today — its gender stereotypes and wife-slapping argument for womanly submission — but to suggest how the latest Broadway revival, which opened on Thursday in a production starring the sublime Kelli O'Hara, could be so enjoyable anyway.
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Other efforts from this period include a wood-veneer bureau, titled "La Femme Commode," with a head, womanly curves and strategically placed drawers and knobs; a coffee table with a similarly schematized female form cut from wood and resting on a clear Plexiglas base; and a white vinyl sofa in the shape of a long, slim foot.
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No, first of all It's a blossoming, womanly Feeling in the caves Of my guts, bright With lights & soda Observing Canada Geese pad across an ice rink Like old people in bathrobes Haven't figured out How to talk to my father yet Who here understands English Still haven't figured out how to talk to my father Ariana Reines's most recent collection is MERCURY.
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Whether it's because she fears her daughter being replaced or, by womanly intuition, simply knows that no good can come of Father Fodgen fixating on Claire, she makes herself into an ally even when disguising herself as an enemy, utilizing the power she knows she has over the grieving priest to create the only escape route available to Claire in that moment.
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She presents each of the three pieces in different formal ways, and the display of "Here for You (Or My Brief Love Affair with Frank Maresca)" within the frame of a giant, cartoonish 2D TV brings one small epiphany: a new metaphor for Hirsch's journey through the wilderness of womanly wiles in a highly mediated age, and her onion-like presentation of her personality.
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Activists and advocates love to talk about "empowering" girls, but only insofar as those girls are quiet and compliant, and the championing of girls wanes when they enter the messy adolescent years -- when they walk on the precipice between girlish adorableness and womanly sexuality, when they demand more ownership over their bodies and ideas, when they take risks and suggest they have their own wants and desires (including sexual ones).
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The lyrics fantasize about turning into the girlfriend's platonic female friend and thus getting closer; Camille's vocal mixture of vulnerability and artificiality, of soul and cartoon, of woman and man and something that you'll never understand, goes further — the very existence of such a voice, the result of Prince speeding up his own voice to resemble some creepy entity whose vaguely womanly bleat could have belonged to your aunt or a child or the anthropomorphized Feminine Principle, articulates the urge to escape one's own body, to escape all physical barriers and gender distinctions, to cross dividing lines between people and completely merge with the other ("I wanna be all the things you are to me").
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