Quotes About Femininity

Look and image were very important - there was already incredible pressure to look feminine and sexy but I wanted to look individual and strong. I didn't have any role models except Little Nell from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'

I would love to have my own fashion line. I love modest clothing that's still flirty.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.

I like being girly. I used to wear jeans all the time and tracksuit bottoms but then I was like, really all I want to be like is Marilyn Monroe so why am I wearing these?

Every old Hollywood starlet would sing in movies, there'd always be some big dance sequence. Think of Marilyn Monroe singing 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.'

Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.

Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.

It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

The most beautiful women in the world, I find, are those who have inner confidence.

I think hair is one of the most beautiful things a woman has, it gives you confidence.

Halle Berry is and will always be one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women.

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.