Quotes About Femininity

Some ladies like muscle.

I'm not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who's behind it is just such a cool character.

I don't have big muscles.

I pride myself on being an athlete and I have muscles, but at the same time I am a woman and my muscles make me empowered as a woman.

My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.

Whenever you meet another woman, you immediately revert to you five-year-old self thinking, 'do you want to be my friend. Can I keep you?'

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

I think we can all agree there's a kind of beauty myth that as soon as a woman cuts her hair she's more empowered. Feels strong. Floats down the street feeling like a Parisian woman during fashion week, all carefree. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks! But that's not always the case.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.

I had somebody say to me, 'You should play more ladylike.' This is basketball. I'm supposed to go out there and, 'Oh, I broke my nail,' or 'Oh, you hit me?'

My Nana Gladys never left the house without lipstick on; she always had matching nails and lips.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Still, that didn't give him the right to chastise her, did it? I have the right because you belong to me and I can do no other than to see to your safety and happiness. The voice was calm and very masculine, holding a dark promise she didn't want to think about.

It wasn't about a women's weight, it was about who they were, if that brightness shone through their eyes and skin and hair. Ricco found beauty in art. Women were a form of art. All shapes and sizes. All body types.