Best 239 quotes in «feminine quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

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

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

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.

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

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

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

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

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

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

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

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

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

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

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

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.