If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.

Stephen McCauley

I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

Anohni

I put on 15 kg for my role as an amateur wrestler in the first half of the Marathi film Natrang.' Then, I lost 17 kg for the second half of the film where I play a nachya,' an effeminate character in traditional Marathi tamasha. The weight gain took 40 days and I lost weight in the next 40 odd days.

Atul Kulkarni

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

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

Carmen Carrera

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

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Edgar Quinet

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

Grace Jones

I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.

Jacqueline Woodson

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

Jinkx Monsoon

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

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

Karl Philipp Moritz

I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

Kerry Washington

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

Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.

Leslie Jordan

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

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

Milo Yiannopoulos

I'm very happy being big and effeminate.

Penn Jillette