Best 194 quotes in «femininity quotes» category

When you see a man struggling financially, usually it's because he simply lacks a perfect muse.

Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men.

Women are just as motivated by the desire for power as men; it's just that our cultural ideas about power don't associate it with femininity.

Women are no sheep.

Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.

Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.

Women who go into the harem do not come out. It is a permanent position." [...] "I am not going in as a woman. I am going in as an assassin. So we have nothing to fear.

You can do anything you put your mind to doing.

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in the workforce, still believe that emotional work is female labor. Most men continue to uphold the sexist decree that emotions have no place in the work world and that emotional labor at home should be done by females.

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.

You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.

You need to wake up and realize that you deserve more, and there is more waiting for you out there. Stop settling; it only tarnishes and corrodes your soul.

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

You're not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men who hate women.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.

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

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me was the value of the work itself. If a woman had come along, somebody like Lee Bontecou or Louise Nevelson, and said, "I'm working on the land," I would have gone to see it.

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

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

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a few elements that distinguish women's observations from men's, like the ability to notice some fine details.

Allow yourself to radiate your feminine light.

All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.

A lot of women lack the sensuality (NOT sexuality) it takes to be in a soul-fulfilling relationship. Even if they do everything 'right', it's still not enough because no one has ever told them that for a relationship to flourish, it needs an affair. However, the affair needs to be with your own self... your inner soul.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to still be very beautiful sometimes to inspire a taste for beauty. I know that these times are not fertile in grace...I am afraid tomorrow the grace of woman...may be recognized as a public utility & be socialized to the point of becoming a banal article, a bazaar object like in '93 & that one will find types of tender or amusing women with millions of copies like the creations of the big...fashion stores where it is always the same thing. I want to affirm the superiority of the god over that of the organizer of concerts for the poor.

And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?" "Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.

although my body was yours for the night  my heart never belonged to you.

As a women's sensuality catalyst, my primary goal is to help women who have lost their sense of femininity and confidence in finding a partner who really understands the needs of their soul, mind and body.

As if femininity were measured by the art of 'shrinking'... women are held in a kind of invisible enclosure (of which the veil is only the visible manifestation) circumscribing the space allowed for the movements and postures of their bodies (whereas men occupy more space, especially in public places). This symbolic confinement is secured practically by their clothing by their clothing which (as was even more visible in former times) has the effect not only of masking the body but of continuously calling it to order.

And I wondered for the first time whether 'feeling feminine' just meant feeling good in your own skin.

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.

Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!

A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that, they wouldn't even have to spend one sleepless night worrying about the possibility of their men cheating.