276 Quotes About Femininity

The Chrysler Building is masculine. Empire State’s feminine.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Indeed, I propose the idea that confusing strength with masculinity is in truth not a feminist ideal, but a misogynistic idea. He is no friend of woman who says women must act masculine to be equal to men, because that merely makes the word ‘feminine’ equal ‘inferior’.

...at the heart of sexism is the construction of gender polarization, in which femininity and masculinity are assumed to be clearly delineated and any transgression of this pattern warrants punitive measures.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

One understands now the drama that rends the adolescent girl at puberty: she cannot become “a grown-up” without accepting her femininity