Femme Quotes

• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma

  Sexy, Fun, Character

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• I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Women, Empowering

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  Carla Bruni

  Femme Fatale

  Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2008.

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• 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 control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Ancient

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world is woman's book.
  [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, World

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• Deux me'  tresou un peu plusse  parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Men, Two, Parent

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Term, Mystique

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

  Orlan

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.

  Joan Nestle

  Color, Two, Flesh

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• On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Born

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1

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• 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 him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Black

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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• I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

  Josie Maran

  Play, Roles, Costumes

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• Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Love, Chance, Bras

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• 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

  Femme Fatale, Ruined, Knows

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• I'm a high femme lesbian who loves butch women. That erotic identity has an enormous amount to do with how I live my life, who I live my life with and what it is we can or can't do.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Erotic, Identity, Living My Life

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've always said that I want to play a neo-femme action star, and I kind of got to do that in this movie-of-the-week called "Wyvern," where I got to shoot a gun and be a little bad-ass, but I'd like to do that even further. I'm dorky myself. I'll play "Zelda" for 10 hours.

  Tinsel Korey

  Stars, Gun, Bad Ass

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2014.

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• I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I've discovered that many people have the same problem. They have a femme fatale limb.

  Jasper Carrott

  Funny, Dog, Thinking

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• Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Imagination, Pretty Woman

  1925 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Albertine disparue'.

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• La femme marie  e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thrones, Married, Slave

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• I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

  Janette Rallison

  Crush, Dream, Boys

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.28, Penguin

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

  Bob Fosse

  Kings, Stars, Husband

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