Quotes About Feminine

#1. 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.

Sasha Alexander

#2. A woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#3. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Kate Bernheimer

#4. The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others.

Germaine Greer

#5. Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#6. And then I return to find your dumb ass hanging out in the street by the car, practically saying Take me! I'm all yours! he said in a feminine voice, wiggling his fingers.

Dannika Dark

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

Judith Butler

#8. I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Zoe Saldana

#9. There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.

Diego Della Valle

#10. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side."
"I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

Gena Showalter

#12. When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Alice Hamilton

#13. She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part - vistas of probable triumphs - the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

Thomas Hardy

#14. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

Bo Burnham

#15. My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.

Weam Namou

#16. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...

Eva Ibbotson

#17. The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

#18. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#19. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

RuPaul

#20. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

#21. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Bai Ling

#22. No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Frank O'Connor

#23. The heart and life of a woman is much more vast than that. All women are made in the image of God in that we bring forth life. When we offer our tender and strong feminine hearts to the world and to those we love, we cannot help but mother them.

Stasi Eldredge

#24. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine. Kylie Minogue is feminine. I am . . . femi-none.

Caitlin Moran

#25. Trust and surrender to the process of your divinely feminine unfolding.

Shann Vander Leek

#26. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.

Colette

#27. Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

Iyanla Vanzant

#28. Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

Georgette Mosbacher

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

Jean Smart

#30. In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

Marianne Williamson

#31. I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

Lisa Leslie

#32. I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.

Andrea Seigel

#33. She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.

Roman Payne

#34. To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Gina Barreca

#35. Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

Jennifer Coolidge

#36. If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

Gaston Bachelard

#37. Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

Ann Demeulemeester

#38. I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Lenny Kravitz

#39. Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don't have to put on an act. If I'm not feminine enough for someone, I don't care, because femininity is different in everyone's mind.

Gloria Steinem

#40. A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

George Hamilton

#41. I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.

Terence McKenna

#42. I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

Billy Corgan

#43. I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine ... which is bullshit.

Gloria Steinem

#44. I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

Joss Whedon

#45. The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

Irina Lazareanu

#46. That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

Susan Faludi

#47. Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

Mick Jagger

#48. Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it - our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#49. Fuck you. (Dev)
Thank you so much for the offer, but while you do have a certain feminine quality in your demeanor and a remarkable head of hair that any woman would envy, you're far too hairy for my tastes. No offense. (Fury)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#50. She should have looked ridiculous, standing there wet and bedraggled in her silly underwear, but she looked magnificent. Like some kind of mythical goddess rising from the mists of time.
Statuesque, utterly feminine. Breathtaking.

Sarah Mayberry

#51. If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

M. Esther Harding

#52. For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

Usher

#53. ... Turning the simple 'handjob' into something exquisitely erotic seems quite a reasonable goal."

Louise to Acacia, re her husbands immediate future, in Explicitly Sexy

Martin Rinehart

#54. Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#55. Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

#56. Male pride is not really about pride. It's about fear - the fear of being seen as feminine. And that's why "girl stuff" is so dangerous. And as long as most men remain deathly afraid of it, they'll continue to take it out on the rest of us.

Julia Serano

#57. Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

Gabrielle Reece

#58. Revel in grossness. Leave food in your teeth. Proudly display feminine hygiene products.

Jennifer Ziegler

#59. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Sathya Sai Baba

#60. I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Gianni Versace

#61. Because, Cat, it's the feminine persuasion that's always the deadliest.

Jeaniene Frost

#62. I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Carmen Electra

#63. On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think ... of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

Flannery O'Connor

#64. Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

Remy De Gourmont

#65. When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.

John Maxwell Taylor

#66. Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Gloria Steinem

#67. She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro.

Nella Larsen

#68. To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight.

Simone De Beauvoir

#69. I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has ... served me so well with women in my life.

Mark Feuerstein

#70. Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

#71. If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Ellen Key

#72. Having fins in the water was useful to travel quickly, but the bulky appendage left much to be desired for exerting dominance. Something about being unable to sit, legs open, left me feeling feminine."
~Fin

Brenda Pandos

#73. 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.

Isabel Allende

#74. I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

Milla Jovovich

#75. The problem with a lot of feminist works is that they tend to take the "feminine" out of "feminism.

H.L. Grey

#76. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Andrej Pejic

#77. If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

Meg Wolitzer

#78. I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

Orlan

#79. Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#80. Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

Orson Welles

#81. For some she came in a dream. For others in words as clear as a bell: it is time, I am here. She may come in a whisper so loud she can deafen you or a shout so quiet you strain to hear. She may appear in the waves or the face of the moon, in a red goddess or a crow.

Lucy H. Pearce

#82. I decided that the only way to keep feminine intuition from sneaking through an occasional lucky stab was to stay away from women altogether, which wasn't practical.

Rex Stout

#83. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.

Amish Tripathi

#84. The masculine sun/solar consciousness shines its vision, direction, and warmth onto the earth; the feminine moon consciousness reflects the light, thus illuminating the dark.

Elisa Romeo

#85. I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#86. Some of us...choose love over power. Indeed, most of us do.

Kelly Barnhill

#87. Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness

Oscar Wilde

#88. The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Andrew Harvey

#89. I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood.

Daesung

#90. 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.

Kim Hyesoon

#91. Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

David Deida

#92. When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion.

Alice Temperley

#93. 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.

Betty Friedan

#94. I was in a book group in 1973," she recounted. "We read The Feminine Mystique one week, and the next week everyone went out and got a job. The book group never met again.

Debora L. Spar

#95. One only really loves from a feminine position.

Jacques-Alain Miller

#96. The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Betty Friedan

#97. Feminine spirituality is much more about the emanation of love in this moment, feeling into this moment, feeling the texture of this moment through the skin, through the body, and then letting your life become an emanation of love.

Arjuna Ardagh

#98. I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

Jan Morris

#99. The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

Camille Paglia