Feminine quotes
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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.
-- Ang Lee -
It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.
-- Antonio Carlos Jobim -
I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.
-- Ariana Grande -
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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.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
-- Brian Clough -
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
-- Caitlin Moran -
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
-- Camille Paglia -
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
-- Carol Gilligan -
I love being a woman and I love being feminine.
-- Charlize Theron -
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The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.
-- Christian Louboutin -
As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
-- Corita Kent -
You always have access to your truth. You always have access to the divine feminine.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
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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.
-- David Deida -
The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
-- David Deida -
Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
-- David Deida -
I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.
-- David Walton -
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Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.
-- Deborah King -
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
-- Emma Bonino -
I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.
-- Eric Roberts -
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The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.
-- Evo Morales -
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
-- Georgette Heyer -
Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett -
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One only really loves from a feminine position.
-- Jacques-Alain Miller -
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
-- Jean Smart -
Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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I'm not only in touch with my feminine side, I'm in touch with my gay side as well.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.
-- Jessie Ware -
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
-- Joan of Arc -
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.
-- Judith Butler -
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
-- Judith Butler -
Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
-- Jules Renard -
In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
-- Lord Edward FitzGerald -
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
-- Margaret Fuller -
It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..
-- Margaret Starbird -
...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
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I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.
-- Mark Feuerstein -
Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
-- Marlo Thomas -
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
-- Michelle Bachelet -
It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.
-- Miuccia Prada -
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
-- Nancy Reagan -
It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair,
-- Natalie Dormer -
I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.
-- Natalie Gulbis -
There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
-- Oscar de la Renta -
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
-- Oscar Niemeyer -
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.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
-- Queen Victoria -
I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini -
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We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.
-- Sandra Bartky -
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.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
-- Scott Bakula -
I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
-- Serena Williams -
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You can still be strong and be feminine.
-- Shannon Tweed -
We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.
-- Silvio Scaglia -
Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.
-- Spencer W. Kimball -
Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?
-- Susan Estrich -
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
-- Victoria Beckham -
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
-- Vin Diesel -
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
-- Zora Neale Hurston -
... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.
-- Elizabeth Missing Sewell -
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I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.
-- Francesca DiMattio -
Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.
-- George Sampson -
If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.
-- June Singer -
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
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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.
-- Sheila Kelley -
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.
-- Daniel Odier -
If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.
-- Rosemary Casals -
I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it.
-- Jack P. Shepherd -
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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.
-- Lauren Mayberry
