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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over. -- Camille Paglia
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men. -- Madonna Ciccone
I'm very happy being big and effeminate. -- Penn Jillette
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. -- Edgar Quinet
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. -- Little Richard
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. -- Luke Ford
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender. -- Judith Butler
I have a very small platform, and if I can use that to reach some kid who's teased for being effeminate or likes clothes, then I've done my job. -- Brad Goreski
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine. -- Cillian Murphy
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. -- Dan Savage
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini! -- Kevyn Aucoin
I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that? -- Kyan Douglas
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. -- Thomas Willis
The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns -- Art Alexakis
I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man. -- Quentin Crisp
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank. -- Greg Giraldo
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. -- Christina Stead
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. -- Billy Sunday
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. -- Charles Spurgeon
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. -- Robin Boyd
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh. -- Alphonsus Liguori
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. -- Oscar Wilde
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours. -- Jonathan Meades
You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please. -- Thomas Morley
I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face. -- Robert Pattinson
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. -- James Gates Percival
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. -- William Prynne

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