Femme Quotes - Page 2

• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• A lui la foi, a'   elle le doute, a'   elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

  Honore de Balzac

  Doubt, Suffering, Doe

  1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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• Un homme n'a jamais pu e  lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'   lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

  Honore de Balzac

  Son, Men, Mistress

  1829 Physiologie du mariage.

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

  Anna Biller

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Kings, Boys

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

  Laurie Holden

  Play, Mind, Femme Fatale

  Source: collider.com

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• Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody."

  Tinsel Korey

  Lonely, Sweet, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people are seeing us as much more multi-layered personalities with desires, and wants, and needs as much as any male figure out there.

  Barbara Crampton

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a huge Luc Besson fan. The Fifth Element, I just loved that movie. Luc cast me to play a small part in it, and so I did, because I love all his movies actually - The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional. His movies are so wonderful. It's just fun to be in it and for it to be a sci-fi movie.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Blue, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  T. J. Miller

  Girl, Strong, Fun

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.

  Eve Arden

  Girl, Real, Dark

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

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• Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
  [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Episodes

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• Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

  Denis Diderot

  Sleep

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• Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"  me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

  Boris Vian

  Men, Design, Plans

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• I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

  Lana Del Rey

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Husband, Children, Women

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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Air, Looks

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• Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
  [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Jealousy, Men, Causes

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• La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Aphrodisiac, Truffles

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• La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge  e, respecte  e, de  sire  e a'   travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Son, Appearance, Knows

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• Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

  Rachel Weisz

  Sexy, Fun, Play

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Power, Greatness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

  Danielle Steel

  Years, Signatures, And Love

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