Defeat Quote by Elizabeth Gould Davis

“In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person,…

— Julia Serano

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune…

— Isla Fisher

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent…

— Hanna Rosin

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

— Gloria Steinem

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted…

— Queen Victoria

In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is…

— Laura Marling

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the…

— Immanuel Kant

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

— Arianna Huffington

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more…

— Siri Hustvedt

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we…

— Marianne Williamson

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just…

— Tiffany Madison

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy…

— Jean Paul Gaultier