Quotes About Femininity

I have played queens on screen in the past.

I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

A bright lipstick is a quick way to glam up my look.

I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

I seem to have had quite a lot of pink dresses.

I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.

I see really long nails as a form of extreme, radical femininity. They make me feel strong.

I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.

No one wants to be a rake, it's not attractive. Boys like a bum. Even I've got a bit of a bum.

In a lot of the Regency stuff we've seen in the past, we see a very composed woman. There's not much sexuality there. It's very much the male gaze.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

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'm really interested in women of different generations... I think there is no one female experience.

I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.

My advice is don't scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.

I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

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.