When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
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DENIS VILLENEUVE Our approach isn't to call for feminism, but rather femininity. In nature, such differences are ther... EYAD MADANI If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's alway... JILL SOLOWAY I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c... MARILYN MONROE The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comf... ELIZABETH WURTZEL When you do femininity and it is a bit hard, then it is a bit '80s. ZAC POSEN I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema th... DENIS VILLENEUVE It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that... ELISABETH ELLIOT One of the greatest gift a man can give his mum is his respect for femininity. OLASOT It is a fusion of Middle Eastern, African, Spanish flamenco and Indian dances. We celebrate the spir... MAYRA MARRERO For example, within the U.S. military today there arise all kinds of questions about what the bounda... ISABEL MARCUS The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse,... SUSAN FALUDI It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in l... NAOMI WOLF We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of... LIBBA BRAY The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered... KATHARINE GRAHAM Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a... ISLA FISHER Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity... TASHA TUDOR There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's sti... DEMI MOORE The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new ... ROBERT CASEY Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturer... MARILYN MONROE The day when passion is accepted as a mark of womanhood, it will mark the beginning of the end of fe... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost. DONNA MILLS One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel Am... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei... BETTY FRIEDAN When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei... BETTY FRIEDAN When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity, she finally began to enjoy be... BETTY FRIEDAN A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived... VICTORIA PENDLETON Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different mo... MONICA BELLUCCI It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day...I don't really know if I reall... ELIZABETH BERG No target is ‘easy or difficult’ on its own, it depends on who you are, that makes the target lo... HARRISH SAIRAMAN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of... FARRAH FAWCETT God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of ... FARRAH FAWCETT There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m... IRIS MURDOCH I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and materna... ELISABETH ELLIOT God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. ... FARRAH FAWCETT I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voice... KATIE ASELTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace an... GERMAINE GREER I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano on... AMOS OZ Breast cancer is the disease that, for a long time, women feared the most. In this country, we're so... FRAN VISCO You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex... NICOLE WILLIAMS Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein’s wife expects her husband to put... BETTY FRIEDAN Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- onl... ANDREA DWORKIN Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only ... ANDREA DWORKIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather pri... DODIE SMITH If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back. HEATHER MILLS I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especial... 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DONATELLA GIROMBELLI Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a... SIDNEY BUCHMAN Almost all crime depends on the acquiescence of the victim. If the victim refuses his assigned role,... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successfu... CANDACE BUSHNELL We're well aware that this is a controversial issue, there's no doubt about it. But the economy of o... MAHONRRY HIDALGO America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. AJAY NAIDU I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reve... SHANNON L. ALDER The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- i... SAMHITA MUKHOPADHYAY We talked about it the week we were undefeated, about how we've always been the one chasing the team... PATRICK JOYCE I truly believe that Betty Friedan was the most influential woman, not only of the 20th century but ... MURIEL FOX The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA It's a kind of femininity that is different from before. The military look, but in a romantic way. STEFANO GABBANA My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issue... ANDREA ANDERSON Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. WENDY SHALIT A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi... VICTOR HUGO God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. ... FARRAH FAWCETT What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic eno... 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