Femme Quotes

• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma

  Sexy, Fun, Character

  66 Copy quote

• I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Women, Empowering

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  Carla Bruni

  Femme Fatale

  Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Ancient

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

  18 Copy quote

• I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

  Orlan

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Born

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

  Josie Maran

  Play, Roles, Costumes

  18 Copy quote

• I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Black

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Term, Mystique

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.43, Canongate Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.

  Joan Nestle

  Color, Two, Flesh

  9 Copy quote

• Deux me'  tresou un peu plusse  parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Men, Two, Parent

  7 Copy quote

• I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Erotic, Identity, Living My Life

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always said that I want to play a neo-femme action star, and I kind of got to do that in this movie-of-the-week called "Wyvern," where I got to shoot a gun and be a little bad-ass, but I'd like to do that even further. I'm dorky myself. I'll play "Zelda" for 10 hours.

  Tinsel Korey

  Stars, Gun, Bad Ass

  Source: collider.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Femme Fatale, Ruined, Knows

  32 Copy quote

• I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2014.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is woman's book.
  [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, World

  3 Copy quote

• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Imagination, Pretty Woman

  1925 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Albertine disparue'.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Aphrodisiac, Truffles

  9 Copy quote

• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge  e, respecte  e, de  sire  e a'   travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Son, Appearance, Knows

  8 Copy quote

• Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

  Danielle Steel

  Years, Signatures, And Love

  9 Copy quote

• Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

  Rachel Weisz

  Sexy, Fun, Play

  15 Copy quote