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How to use the word femininity in a Sentence?

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Femininity unfolds naturally, whereas masculinity must be achieved; and here is where the male ritual cult steps in.

Gilbert Herdt

added by Normando
2 years ago

Boys and young men are taught to avoid anything associated with femininity, most notably weakness, emotion, and homosexuality.

Katie Schweighofer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Here I am achieving this out-of-control life, and I can't do the one thing I'm biologically put on this earth to do. Then I have to go onstage and be this sex symbol of femininity and empowerment? It is demoralizing.

Christopher Smith/Invision/AP

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're protesting our right to not be responsible for men and to not be constantly policed by morals or femininity.

Anne Jarrett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I wanted it to have a sort of femininity and a powerful message at the same time because I believe the two can go hand in hand, i liked the idea of talking about fighting.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

Yul Brynner

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

All women like to show their faces. We've lost that option. We've lost our femininity.

Oum Mohammad

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We see ... slim waistlines, we see a lot of femininity.

Designer Scervino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are seeing the idea of all of this lovely femininity that has a bit of an edge everywhere.

Ken Downing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When patients opt for immediate reconstruction, the cosmetic results tend to be superior, as a skin-sparing procedure is performed which preserves the skin envelope and the shape for the plastic surgeons to fill, for some women, there is also the psychological advantage of never being completely flat, which is important for their body image and feeling of femininity.

Anees Chagpar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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

Farrah Fawcett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

Germaine Greer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Betty Naomi Friedan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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