Best 239 quotes in «feminine quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

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

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

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.

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

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.

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

Taste is the feminine of genius.

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

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

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

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

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

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

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 women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.

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.

Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

You don't have to apologize for being feminine in a male space.