Quotes About Femininity

One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.