Century Quote by Germaine Greer

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the…

— Germaine Greer

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

— Betty Friedan

The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpness of vision, which…

— Anonymous

The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

— Robert S. Jepson, Jr

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

— Marianne Williamson

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were…

— Helen Andelin

“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give both to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Femininity is now being integrated into the sensual world. It can no longer stand as its own entity in this new era. Being a…

— Lebo Grand

The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in…

— Pope John Paul II

“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel…

— Laura Kipnis

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become…

— Laurie Penny

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

— Carrie Brownstein