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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Topics: Am Away Big Compromise Femininity Going Make Mentors Mine Minimize Power Pressure Takes Were Who I Am

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I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

~Amy Locane

Topics: Always Early Femininity Get Girl Hated Realized Used Wanted Who

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Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

~Andrea Dworkin

Topics: Dead Femininity Free Know Longer Manhood Only Perish Sustains Then Will

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I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: About Authenticity Convince Femininity Given Trying Up World

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For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: After Androgyny Attractive Because Before Childhood Ended Expressed Felt Femininity Just Like Long Long Time Looking Mirror Much Really Through Time

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Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

~Beth Ditto

Topics: Any Because Choose Create Culture Deep Enough Female Femininity Had Hand Hated Identity Just Lesbian Look Me Models My Own Myself Own Pop Pop Culture Queer Role Role Models Us Variety Within Worked

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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

~Cameron Russell

Topics: Beauty Centuries Defined Femininity Few Figures Past Skin Slender Tall White

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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

~Carine Roitfeld

Topics: Always Because Bit Femininity Hands Having Heels High High Heels Like Love Masculine Mix Pockets Reason Skirts Something Tights True I Love

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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

~Carlos Santana

Topics: Balance Beautiful Become Compassion Conscious Dad Evolved Femininity General Get Him Intuition Like Lot Macho Man Masculinity Men Mexican More Overboard Problem Say Tenderness Thing Took While Would

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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.

~Carole Bouquet

Topics: Awareness Body Could Femininity Invented Learnt Like Man Me Means Mother My Own Never Own Pass People Rather Sensuality Staring Talk Taught Were Woman Your Your Body

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