Femme fatale Quote by Tracy Brogan

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal…

— Camille Paglia

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves…

— Salma Hayek

I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

— Scarlett Johansson

“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer…

— David Sedaris

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

— Aeschylus

“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who…

— Rachel Cusk

I think this is a trait that runs throughout the queer community, the obsession with the hyper-feminine female villains. And we see it in…

— Jinkx Monsoon

“I had great femme mentors, I had good role models of gentle men, I found ways to be a butch that did not require…

— S. Bear Bergman

“Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to apologize and…

— Germaine Greer

“Literature and fiction are full of femmes fatales, but there is also an homme fatal, an altogether rarer bird, and pity help the lonely…

— Mary Stewart

“The "Fatal Female Flaw." It's when ordinarily sensible women fall madly in love with an unattainable man who can't or won't love them back.…

— Nikki Sex

“She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves