Top 60 Femininity Quotes

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

Something that I’ve definitely taken on when I think of my style icons – people like Harry Styles and the way he’s managed to bring a femininity to his masculinity – is that that’s definitely the way that we’re moving as men going into 2021.

You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.

A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that’s a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there’s a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

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

If there’s a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it’s always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

I have a muscular build and I’ve learned to embrace that because it’s makes me strong, giving me speed and power on the ice. It’s a different kind of femininity – one that doesn’t fit the norm.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body – for me, pregnancy has just been an extension of that.

I’ve given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.

In ‘Drama,’ I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.

I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.

I’m not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.

I can’t help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

The U.K.’s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

I think that there’s so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

I would love to show young girls that you can be complex, and that you don’t have to part ways with your femininity in order to be taken seriously. But it does take more strength if you’re going to be feminine, because people are going to underestimate you. I struggled with that when I was growing up.

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.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they’re compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

I can actually dress up or bring my femininity in and bring my own flair and my own stout – and still be great at what I do. We’re created different to be unique!

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry – it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

I’m comfortable with my femininity, and I don’t try to change what I look like just because I’m reporting on football at the end of the night.

Femininity and sport can go together.

I’m not against embracing my femininity, but I’ve never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.

When I played Candy Darling in ‘I Shot Andy Warhol,’ that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I’m in heels; I’m waxed. I’m gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful – that was the ’80s, and that didn’t help women.

I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don’t have the power to think, to write, lead and create, women are capable of doing everything.

A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.

I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.

We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.

I’ve been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it’s not very ladylike.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

It honestly affects my mental health, social media, on a really profound level. Because I’m constantly being bombarded with an image of femininity that I feel I have to adhere to. And I think there’s a lot of pressure in this industry, as well, being constantly discriminated on your aesthetic appearance.

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

I hate that femininity in a gay men is a ‘stereotype.’

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

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

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

Flowers are divine, they have divine qualities that I adore. And they also connect me with femininity.

I don’t know, so much of women’s femininity is tied up with their hair.

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

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

I like that I’m in shape but still look like a woman. I don’t feel like I’ve had to give up my femininity to be an athlete. I feel good about my body because I work hard every day, and I still look and carry myself as a woman – a strong woman.

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.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.