Femininity Quotes
122 quotes by 104 authors
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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…
— Betty Friedan
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Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a…
— Camille Paglia
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The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has…
— Katharine Graham
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.
— Carole Landis
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in…
— Yohji Yamamoto
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To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed…
— Helen Andelin
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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…
— Alice von Hildebrand
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Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the mostâ€, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and…
— Janet Mock
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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…
— Marabel Morgan
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Femininity and sport can go together.
— Rebecca Lobo
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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…
— Rebecca Lobo
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Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of…
— Jason Evert
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People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
— Leslie Feinberg
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your…
— James E. Faust
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
— Gabrielle Reece
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
— Margaret Smith
Who Wrote These Femininity Quotes
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