Best 239 quotes in «feminine quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

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.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

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

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

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

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.]

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 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.

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.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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 owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

Words are feminine; deeds are 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.

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.

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

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.