Femininity Quotes

“You can buy femininity, but you can’t buy sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“We are who our daughters will become.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt, open outlook, and with men she had much in common—sport for instance. But men found her too clever if she ventured to expand, and too dull if she suddenly subsided into shyness. In addition to this there was something about her that antagonized slightly, an unconscious presumption. Shy though she might be, they sensed this presumption; it annoyed them, it made them feel on the defensive. She was handsome but much too large and unyielding both in body and mind, and they liked clinging women. They were oak-trees, preferring the feminine ivy. It might cling rather close, it might finally strangle, it frequently did, and yet they preferred it, and this being so, they resented Stephen, suspecting something of the acorn about her.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Captain Ramsay was kind-hearted, he would try very hard to be complimentary; his grey eyes would try to express admiration, polite admiration as they rested on Stephen. His voice would sound softer and more confidential, the voice that nice men reserve for good women, protective, respectful, yet a little sex-conscious, a little expectant of a tentative response. But Stephen would feel herself growing more rigid with every kind word and gallant allusion. Openly hostile she would be feeling, as poor Captain Ramsay or some other victim was manfully trying to do his duty.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Women are experiencing new pressures that their mothers and grandmothers cannot help them understand and so they are now twice as likely to be diagnosed with anxiety disorders.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Women who assert dominance over men are not only more likely to abuse them, but they also abuse themselves with dangerous behavior.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Masculine women who wish to be dominant experience higher rates of STI’s, unplanned pregnancy, and depression.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Promiscuous women are more likely to be liberal.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“If we cannot segregate ourselves from the opposite sex when vulnerable in locker rooms and bathrooms, if we cannot compete fairly in sports and other endeavors, then we lose all sense of self, security, and even justice.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Traditional femininity is biological. It cannot be induced, mimicked, or donned by changing clothes, and it cannot flourish without women connecting to each other on a basic level.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Every woman is different, but we share basic common traits that link us in way no one else can compete with.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Without a sense of self-worth — or clear boundaries between reality and fantasy — young ladies cannot properly mature.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“When Margaret Thatcher transitioned her speaking voice to a more male register to be listened to by men of the House of Commons, she was not scrutinised in the same way a trans man would be - her voice was mainly praised ... becoming more masculine is always [socially] favoured over perceived femininity.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“Most of what I learned about motherhood and being a woman came from experience, not school books or health class.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“What we do matters the most.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Plenty of women are discovering too late that there are consequences for putting off having a family.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Boys need feminine mothers who support them and their masculinity.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Men need female counterparts to balance and civilize them.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“It is disturbing and frustrating to know that so many people suffer because the nuclear family is no longer popular”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“There is a serious epidemic of infantilization in this nation and it is mainly due to the degradation of the family unit and tradition”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Hope is necessary for success.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Part of the human condition is feeling out of place at times.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Mainstream publishers don’t care about sharing knowledge, increasing intellect, or producing beautiful art; they focus on what the author looks like and how they identify far more than the quality of the content.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Our beauty is being stifled by extremists who would be outcasts in a healthy society.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Family is truly everything.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Nothing is worth more than being there for your kids.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Every day I draw from the wisdom of my grandmother.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“By rejecting femininity and tradition we have lost our culture.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“There is no woman stronger than one who can face their problems with a smile.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Imagine what we could accomplish if we stopped placing our lives on a timetable and went back to just being able to knock on a neighbor’s door at any time.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future