Femininity Quotes

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.

I’ve been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn’t lost.

My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.

I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.

I am trying to embrace more of my femininity. I need to wear more pastels and put my hair down!

My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body – for me, pregnancy has just been an extension of that.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

My autumn/winter 2011-12 collection embodies the bold and beautiful while reflecting an innovative style and passion for immaculate design. I believe that this collection radiates modern femininity and beauty in its purest form.

I’ve been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men’s clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like – projecting strength through femininity.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don’t expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they’re surprised.

I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that’s very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

I’m not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

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.

The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.

I’m not against embracing my femininity, but I’ve never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.

I enjoy wearing fragrance every day and have found myself searching for the one signature scent that truly reflects my personality and the things I love, such as Bulgarian rose. I have always wanted to create a fragrance from its inception to fruition and articulate femininity, confidence, and fortitude.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity.

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

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.

Flowers are divine, they have divine qualities that I adore. And they also connect me with femininity.

In all my screenplays, I have been exploring various aspects of femininity.

If there’s a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it’s always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

I thought ‘Hanna’ was an opportunity to explore a character whose femininity was so raw and unconditioned by the modern world.

I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing.

I don’t clean now, because I’m paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It’s my inner femininity.

Something that I’ve definitely taken on when I think of my style icons – people like Harry Styles and the way he’s managed to bring a femininity to his masculinity – is that that’s definitely the way that we’re moving as men going into 2021.

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

With Trixie specifically, on the one hand, it’s a celebration of femininity. It’s that moment when you’re playing Pretty Pretty Princess, and there’s also, this is what society says a girl looks like, the amount of makeup I wear and the humongous blond wigs.

When I played Candy Darling in ‘I Shot Andy Warhol,’ that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I’m in heels; I’m waxed. I’m gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.

Only when manhood is dead – and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it – only then will we know what it is to be free.

I’ve given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

I’m not afraid of my femininity and I’m not afraid of my sexuality.

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.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it’s not very ladylike.

Femininity and sport can go together.

I don’t clean now, because I’m paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It’s my inner femininity.

It honestly affects my mental health, social media, on a really profound level. Because I’m constantly being bombarded with an image of femininity that I feel I have to adhere to. And I think there’s a lot of pressure in this industry, as well, being constantly discriminated on your aesthetic appearance.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.

If you’re female, and you want to express your femininity, you’re actually demonized in the ‘Free To Be… You And Me’ generation.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they’re compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

Since I was a kid, I’ve always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.

I don’t know, so much of women’s femininity is tied up with their hair.

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.

The great majority of men are attracted to feminine women who do not possess the body type of Michael Phelps. Beyonce is desired not because of her ‘diabolical femininity,’ but simply because of her femininity.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

When I found the ‘Human Nature’ music video as a teenager – I’ve been a drag queen since 15 – I just loved that music video so much because it’s such a celebration of her femininity and her sexuality. I thought it was so powerful.

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that’s like – everyone is a person.

I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn’t mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.

I like that I’m in shape but still look like a woman. I don’t feel like I’ve had to give up my femininity to be an athlete. I feel good about my body because I work hard every day, and I still look and carry myself as a woman – a strong woman.

We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn’t like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn’t attractive.

I can actually dress up or bring my femininity in and bring my own flair and my own stout – and still be great at what I do. We’re created different to be unique!

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.

I hate that femininity in a gay men is a ‘stereotype.’

Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.