Words matter. These are the best Effeminate Quotes from famous people such as Atul Kulkarni, Kevyn Aucoin, Kyan Douglas, Thomas Willis, Robert Lepage, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I put on 15 kg for my role as an amateur wrestler in the first half of the Marathi film Natrang.’ Then, I lost 17 kg for the second half of the film where I play a nachya,’ an effeminate character in traditional Marathi tamasha. The weight gain took 40 days and I lost weight in the next 40 odd days.
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
I’m all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I’m going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn’t butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn’t matter in the theatre.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can’t read sexuality off of gender.
My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it’s easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What’s difficult is to play feminine.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
I have a very small platform, and if I can use that to reach some kid who’s teased for being effeminate or likes clothes, then I’ve done my job.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It’s often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
I’m very happy being big and effeminate.
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
I don’t think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?
