A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She raises her hands to the sky and breathes it in, she starts spinning, enjoying the feel and energy of this Africa.… — Renee Topper Copy Share Image
I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
“The greatest barrier preventing us from fully challenging sexism is the pervasive antifeminine sentiment that runs wild in both the straight and… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing 'the most,' meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“A true misogynist is a straight man who — because he is a potential pushover for women and realizes it — resents… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Very few women understand how great is the hunger in a man to be near femininity...(b)ut if a woman wishes to give… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden. So when I appear on YouTube with forty… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The womanliness of my forties had fallen from me, along with my curls, my little double chin and my rounded hips. At… — Marlen Haushofer Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I would love for a woman to be able to present, have the vocal intonation that she has and still be taken… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed… — Renee Wade Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Women will start realizing why men dont treat them like ladies. Men are looking at them like youre trying to be like… — Akon Copy Share Image
A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.” In this view, gender is less an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In order to win the femininity game, women and girls must abandon the valued "masculine" characteristics of self-efficacy and self-determination. However, this… — Lauraine Leblanc Copy Share Image
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there… — Rebecca Lobo Copy Share Image
“As I do next to all women who glow with this kind of femininity, I feel like an impostor, a poor imitation… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“A woman is like a universe; there are many things that even she still needs to discover about herself. Men on the… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I think that just because I'm trans, and I feel like I have to prove to people that I'm a woman sometimes,… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image