Top 100 Quotes About Femininity
#1. Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
Saskia De Brauw
#2. I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
Angelina Jolie
#3. Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
Sheila Jeffreys
#4. The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.
Germaine Greer
#5. I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
Jil Sander
#6. I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.
Raf Simons
#7. The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
Kirk Douglas
#8. Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.
Sheila Jeffreys
#9. The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?
Valerie Steele
#10. When we've defined femininity for their generation so narrowly, in such a sexualized, commercialized, heteroeroticized way, where is the space, the vision, the celebration of other ways to be a girl?
Peggy Orenstein
#11. Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.
Bell Hooks
#12. I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Zooey Deschanel
#13. I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.
Erica Jong
#14. The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.
Sandra Bartky
#15. Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece
#16. ...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]
Sveva Casati Modignani
#17. I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
Paul Theroux
#18. It called to him, a sweet heady beacon of femininity, fertility, and fuckability. His three favorite f-words.
Christine Warren
#19. When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
Betty Friedan
#20. I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.
Sylvia Porter
#21. The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.
Madonna Ciccone
#22. Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
Johnny Weir
#23. If she likes makeup, let her wear it. If she likes fashion, let her dress up. But if she doesn't like either, let her be. Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#24. Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
Marion Woodman
#25. The pleasure was in the staging, the idea of ourselves as a repetition of others. I knew this without saying it, felt my femininity as the game of all women, a mysterious identification in which I lost myself.
Siri Hustvedt
#26. Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.
Carole Landis
#27. It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!
Marabel Morgan
#28. If we minimize our gifts, hush our voice, and stay small in a misguided attempt to fit a weak and culturally conditioned standard of femininity, we cannot give our brothers the partner they require in God's mission for the world.
Sarah Bessey
#30. The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.
Rachel Cusk
#31. Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
Wendy Shalit
#32. It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
Karen Horney
#33. For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Cameron Russell
#34. When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
#35. There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.
Nicole Kidman
#36. I think that just because I'm trans, and I feel like I have to prove to people that I'm a woman sometimes, I'm never going to sacrifice my vision of femininity to make it clearer for other people. Even if it sometimes gets cloudy.
Hari Nef
#37. Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
Isla Fisher
#38. There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am
Laura Hillenbrand
#39. What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.
Todd Haynes
#40. Scientists can test only what they do not take for granted. That can make studying familiar phenomena particularly challenging...This may be especially true of masculinity, femininity and sexuality, because certain ideas abut gender and sexuality are so broadly shared in our culture
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
#41. A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
Rita Mae Brown
#43. I've always grown up as a tomboy and don't see myself as much of a girly girl, but when the time comes, it's fun to play dress up and embrace my femininity.
Lauren Gardner
#44. Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#45. Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations
Rad Hourani
#46. Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.
Monica Bellucci
#47. I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.
Jennifer Garner
#48. Chestnuts fall from the tree; symbol of masculinity and femininity - I scratched a purple pentagram in the tree.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#49. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.
Reese Witherspoon
#50. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
Marilyn Monroe
#51. This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#52. One understands now the drama that rends the adolescent girl at puberty: she cannot become "a grown-up" without accepting her femininity
Simone De Beauvoir
#53. Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.
Fanny Fern
#54. The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity
Julia Serano
#55. After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
Germaine Greer
#56. I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.
Ivanka Trump
#57. As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
Gwendoline Christie
#58. In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person, whether female- or male-bodied, to embrace their feminine self.
Julia Serano
#59. My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
Margaret Smith Court
#60. The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
Andrea Dworkin
#61. There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
Rebecca Lobo
#62. She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.
Kate Pullinger
#63. her fiery femininity triumphed over the eczema covering half her face. Hans
Thomas Mann
#64. Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.
Donatella Versace
#65. By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#66. The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.
John Piper
#67. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one's favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.
Yohji Yamamoto
#68. I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.
Gwendoline Christie
#69. I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
Colin Trevorrow
#70. Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, enrapturing both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit.
Sai Marie Johnson
#71. Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.
Louise Burfitt-Dons
#72. Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
Yul Brynner
#73. I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.
Koren Zailckas
#74. I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool ... but that's just natural.
Dolly Parton
#75. I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.
Emma Donoghue
#76. The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.
Leslie Ludy
#77. The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
Rachel Cusk
#78. You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and thinking, attempts to find a way for women to speak, will improve widely in Korea.
Kim Hyesoon
#79. She refuses to support the slogan - Men are equal to women - if this translates to her femininity being faded out or confused by trying to please a selfish idea of anyone wanting a woman to be both herself and a man.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#80. It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.
Geri Halliwell
#81. It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Vivienne Westwood
#82. No form of gender equity can ever truly be achieved until we first work to empower femininity itself.
Julia Serano
#83. The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#84. She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity, just like she was above him, and sex, and everything else that's weak and of the flesh.
Ken Kesey
#85. The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.
Benita Roth
#86. I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.
Burt Lancaster
#87. I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man. So only an
oblique consideration will be found here of man; it's up to him to say
where his masculinity and femininity are at: this will concern us once
men have opened their eyes and seen themselves clearly.
Helene Cixous
#88. [U]ntil feminists work to empower femininity and pry it away from the insipid, inferior meanings that plague it - weakness, helplessness, fragility, passivity, frivolity, and artificiality - those meanings will continue to haunt every person who is female and/or feminine.
Julia Serano
#89. Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women's roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies. Though
Angela Y. Davis
#90. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
#92. Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.
Laurie Penny
#93. If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.
Heather Mills
#94. God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett
#95. The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
Pope John Paul II
#96. People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
Leslie Feinberg
#97. I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
Hamid Drake
#98. The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.
Karen Karbo
#99. Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.
Philip K. Dick
#100. I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
Fergie
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