Femininity Quotes - Page 5

• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Deception, Encounters

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

  Antony Hegarty

  War, Men, Males

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  Paloma Faith

  Queens, Men, Thinking

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• ... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Monsters, Creation, Feminine

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• We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

  Libba Bray

  Color, Lines, Steps

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• 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

  Eye, Differences, Interesting

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• 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

  Women, Reform, May

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• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• 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

  Men, America, Ideas

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Shapes, Gender, Masculinity

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• 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

  Feminism, Needs, Burning

  "A Venn Diagram of Hollywood's Confused Feminists" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

  Keira Knightley

  Mother, Home, Men

  "Keira Knightley Engaged: Actress Talks Marriage In ‘Vogue’", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2012.

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• A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Important, Today, Knows

  FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Nov 11, 2010

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• 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

  Girl, Jobs, Math

  "The Amazing Things Jennifer Garner Wants Her Daughters to Learn" by Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 20, 2014.

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• 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

  Women, Careers, Venture

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• 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

  Men, Self, Long

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more - is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Reality, Ideas

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Iron Will, Respect Her, International

  Speech to CWCC, London, April 2013.

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• Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

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• 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

  Shoes, Icons, Erotic

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• The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Doors, Opposites, People

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Gears, Demand

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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