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“With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.”

Long Style Hair Obvious Variety Remove Pearls Femininity Crave Sunglasses Necklaces Earrings Short Hair

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.”

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Book:Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

Source: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

“Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.”

Feelings Girl Position Normal Lows Construction Femininity Powerlessness

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations”

Style Interpretation Masculinity Femininity

Author:Rad Hourani

“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.”

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Author:Farrah Fawcett

“I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.”

Feels Trying Powerful Losing Femininity

Author:Miuccia Prada

“This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.”

Girl Given Modern Apologizing Femininity Old Days Working Girl

Book:The Engagements

Source: The Engagements

“The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.”

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Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.”

Women Pay Careers Conflict Daring Venture Femininity Unwilling Renunciation

Book:Feminine Psychology

Source: Feminine Psychology

“We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.”

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Author:Libba Bray

“Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.”

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Author:Saskia de Brauw

“A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.”

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Author:Paloma Faith