Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

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

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

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.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Femininity and sport can go together.

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

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

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

I have nothing but praise for J. K. Rowling. Her contribution - apart from the books themselves, obviously - is showing writers how to interact with the 21st Century.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.

Punk music is rebellious.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled around Europe playing with them. I've also talked with Robert Williamson here and there and Jim Worth. So I've had some good people to talk to and bounce ideas off of.