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    I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.

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    I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

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    It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

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    I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

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    It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

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    It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.

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    It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

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    It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

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    It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

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    ...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

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    I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

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

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    I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

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    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.

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

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    I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene.

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

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    Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

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

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    Shopping, true feminine felicity!

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

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    Taste is the feminine of genius.

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

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

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

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    The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.