Femininity Quotes - Page 2

• To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Skins, Definitions, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!

  Marabel Morgan

  Beautiful, Queens, Husband

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• Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.

  Carole Landis

  Kindness, Gossip, Secret

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• There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.

  Demi Moore

  Attitude, Ideas, Clothes

  "From high earner to highbrow" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2000.

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• Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

  Wendy Shalit

  Beautiful, Answers, Modesty

  Wendy Shalit (2014). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

  Donna Mills

  Important, Lost

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• I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ageless, Feels

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• Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

  Dawn French

  Women, Cowboy, Forever

  Dawn French (2010). “A Tiny Bit Marvellous”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Writing, Men, Important

  "Author Sidney Sheldon dies", www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2007.

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• I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

  Goldie Hawn

  Sexuality, Not Afraid

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• After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Remember

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• Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fun, Men, Allure

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

  Kirk Douglas

  Looks, Faces, Firsts

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• Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Powerful, Leader, Trying

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Badass, Women, Funny Motivational

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• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  Carol P. Christ

  Independent, Female, Goddess

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• A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Warrior

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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 it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports

  Rebecca Lobo

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Thinking

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• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Mean, Son

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

  Carol P. Christ

  Moon, Waxing, Three

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• A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Appreciation, Men, Want

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Chapter 7 "The Question of Sex" (p. 95). Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

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• Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

  George Gilder

  Males, Female, Levels

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• Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks very feminine. Why? - because it is simply a metaphor. They have been depicted as feminine, graceful, to show that that is their inner quality - receptivity. When you are doing something you are being aggressive. When you are not doing anything you are non-aggressive. And God cannot be conquered; you can only allow him to conquer you.

  Rajneesh

  Quality, Looks, Conquer

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