Best 239 quotes in «feminine quotes» category

I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

Jewelry is incredibly feminine, and reflects the grace and beauty of a women's style like nothing else.

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

My favorite actor on the planet is Gena Rowlands and she plays women who, to me, somehow defy gender. They are women, they are feminine, they are masculine, they are everything. There's something exciting about that. I don't know how to articulate it exactly. I guess it's busting out of the archetypes a little bit and not feeling restricted.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

Taste is the feminine of genius.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.