In a world where femininity often intertwines with strength, grace, and resilience, the power of femininity emerges as a profound force to be celebrated. From ancient mythologies to modern-day narratives, the essence of femininity has been depicted in myriad forms, reflecting the diverse experiences and expressions of womanhood. Femininity is not confined to stereotypes or narrow definitions but encompasses a spectrum of qualities that transcend boundaries and empower individuals to embrace their unique identities.
Throughout history, luminaries, poets, activists, and everyday individuals have articulated the essence of femininity through poignant words and profound insights. Their quotes resonate across generations, capturing the essence of womanhood in all its complexity and beauty. Whether exploring themes of love, empowerment, vulnerability, or resilience, these quotes offer glimpses into the multifaceted nature of femininity, inspiring reflection, appreciation, and understanding. As we delve into the treasury of femininity quotes below, let us embark on a journey of discovery, celebration, and empowerment, embracing the richness of feminine expression and the myriad stories it holds.
My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. Carlos Santana
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity. John Boyle O’Reilly
In ‘Drama,’ I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done. Radhika Pandit
I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music. Shura
We’re still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically. Libba Bray
I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together. Keke Palmer
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. Carrie Brownstein
I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered. Shakira
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing ‘the most,’ meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments: they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. Janet Mock
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. Todd Haynes
Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities. Dan Levy
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. Asia Kate Dillon
You can still be this tough athlete and be feminine. You don’t have to lose your femininity. Mackenzie Dern
A man can’t pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it – or rather I invented it – on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me. Carole Bouquet
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. Monica Bellucci
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. Vincent D’Onofrio
It’s true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It’s the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets. Carine Roitfeld
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. Rebecca Lobo
Femininity can be a powerful thing. Banks
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. Rachel Cusk
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. Alison Sudol
Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn’t necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable. Sasha Velour
We all have femininity in us. Yasmine Hamdan
When I say, ‘I want women to have access to authentic female healthcare,’ I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that supports their natural femininity. I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that doesn’t include the use of contraception and abortion. Abby Johnson
You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity. Priyanka Chopra
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man’s salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage. Vincent Cassel
I see really long nails as a form of extreme, radical femininity. They make me feel strong. Rosalia
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. Arca
With Trixie specifically, on the one hand, it’s a celebration of femininity. It’s that moment when you’re playing Pretty Pretty Princess, and there’s also, this is what society says a girl looks like, the amount of makeup I wear and the humongous blond wigs. Trixie Mattel
I don’t clean now, because I’m paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It’s my inner femininity. Michael Graves
I hate that femininity in a gay men is a ‘stereotype.’ Nico Santos
Chemo does its best to make you lose your femininity. You lose your hair. You lose your eyelashes. You lose your eyebrows. Debbie Rowe
I’ve been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career. Jill Soloway
There’s a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit. Iliza Shlesinger
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it’s a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others. Monica Bellucci
I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn’t mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity. Jonathan Van Ness
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. Paloma Faith
If you’re female, and you want to express your femininity, you’re actually demonized in the ‘Free To Be… You And Me’ generation. Jill Soloway
I enjoy wearing fragrance every day and have found myself searching for the one signature scent that truly reflects my personality and the things I love, such as Bulgarian rose. I have always wanted to create a fragrance from its inception to fruition and articulate femininity, confidence, and fortitude. Ivanka Trump
I don’t believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. Colin Trevorrow
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. Vivienne Westwood
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. Lisa Guerrero
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. Helen McCrory
I don’t really embrace femininity. Esme Creed-Miles
I’m very sensitive about the fact that there’s not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But ‘strong character’ doesn’t mean ‘masculine character’ – but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way. Denis Villeneuve
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. Saskia de Brauw
I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing. Justin Tranter
The Emilia Wickstead customer is a sophisticated, accomplished woman who expresses her femininity and style through the way she dresses. She appreciates classic with a twist, yet luxurious and high quality clothing that make her feel confident, elegant, and ultimately chic. Emilia Wickstead
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features. Emilia Wickstead
Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped. Jill Soloway
I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it’s not very ladylike. Koren Zailckas
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine – well, she’s asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it’s her equality that’s fake. Rachel Cusk
I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that’s like – everyone is a person. Banks
Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off – a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It’s about owning your narrative again. Christine and the Queens
I’m not afraid of my femininity and I’m not afraid of my sexuality. Goldie Hawn
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. Cameron Russell
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. James E. Faust
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that’s very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like. Jeffrey Tambor
I don’t know, so much of women’s femininity is tied up with their hair. Gwendoline Christie
We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful. Janet Mock
As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman. Gwendoline Christie
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity. Marilyn Monroe
For men, being too put-together implies femininity. Helen Fisher
Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he’s qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to believe amounts to the sum of their character. Franklin Foer
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. Andrea Dworkin
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. Farrah Fawcett
High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity. KRS-One
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with. Johnny Weir
I’ve been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men’s clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like – projecting strength through femininity. Chelsea Manning
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! Michelle Carter
If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back. Heather Mills
We must keep both our femininity and our strength. Indra Devi
Femininity and sport can go together. Rebecca Lobo
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity! Gabrielle Reece
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katharine Graham
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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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. Arca
Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I’m on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that’s great. Lisa Leslie
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. Jill Soloway
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. Monica Bellucci
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. Victoria Pendleton
My autumn/winter 2011-12 collection embodies the bold and beautiful while reflecting an innovative style and passion for immaculate design. I believe that this collection radiates modern femininity and beauty in its purest form. Emilia Wickstead
I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural. Dolly Parton
I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses. Lzzy Hale
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. Sasha Velour
I just am trans. That’s just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy’s body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home. Janet Mock
My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style. Denise Morrison
I’ve given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity. Andreja Pejic
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. Katie Aselton
I am trying to embrace more of my femininity. I need to wear more pastels and put my hair down! Serinda Swan
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. Sue Perkins
I think we won’t be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don’t understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality. Judith Butler
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal. Isla Fisher
For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn’t like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn’t attractive. Andreja Pejic
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. Donatella Versace
I don’t know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, ‘I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.’ That’s a very good way to keep women down. Zooey Deschanel
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. Ivanka Trump
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others. James E. Faust
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. Mary Helen Bowers
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. Nicholas Galitzine
