Mystique Quotes:

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Perfume, Mystique, Abstraction

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

- Neil Young

source: "Neil Young: The Last American Hero" by Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1979.

topic: Talking, Mystique

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

topic: Art, Men, Effectiveness, Mystique, Artistic Creation

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

- Garrett Morris

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Use, Able, Mystique

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Women, Creative, Way, Mystique, Creative Work

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Women, Diversity, Enemy, Mystique, Inadequate

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

- Betty Friedan

topic: Women, History, Alive, Burying, Mystique

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

topic: Sex, America, Promise, Mystique, Feminine Mystique

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

- Betty Friedan

source: The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

topic: Husband, Children, Struggle, Dissatisfaction, Mystique

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Strength, Freedom, Voice, Mystique, Lost Youth

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: World, Modern, Enigma, Mystique

In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

- Rachel Cusk

source: "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

topic: Home, Desire, Want, Mystique, Domestic Life

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Country, Names, Justice, Mystique, Kept Woman

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Sex, Men, Copying, Handicapped, Mystique

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Girl, Sex, Justice, Mystique, Feminine Mystique

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Real, Women, Memorable, Mystique, Women's Rights

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Mother, Children, Pain, Mystique, Feminine Mystique

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning [that is, a longing] that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban [house]wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries ... she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - 'Is this all?

- Betty Friedan

topic: Years, Wife, House, Dissatisfaction, Mystique

The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

- Dave Hampton

topic: Business, People, Magic, Mystique

As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

topic: Psychics, Two, People, Mystique, Numinous

I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.crosswalk.com

topic: Book, Writing, Mean, Called By God, Mystique

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

- Janet Burroway

source: Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

topic: Writing, Ideas, People, Special Gifts, Mystique

Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

- Debby Applegate

topic: Book, Reading, Laughing, Laugh Out Loud Funny, Mystique

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

- Witold Gombrowicz

topic: Virtue, Commit, Fatherland, Mystique

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Powerful, Science, Animal, Mystique, Vivisection

There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

- Ann Richards

topic: Texas, Two, Special, Mystique, Bigger Than Life

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

- Salvatore Quasimodo

topic: Spiritual, Earth, Poetic, Spiritual Freedom, Mystique

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: New Orleans, Play, Vampire, Mystique

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

- Reynolds Price

topic: Thinking, Southern, Southerner, Mystique

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Football, Distance, Emotional, Mystique

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

- Joe McGinniss

source: Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

topic: Men, Stronger, Events, Mystique

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

- Stefan Edberg

source: "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.

topic: Player, Atmosphere, Four, Mystique

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

- Robert Genn

topic: Art, May, Selling, Mystique, High Prices

The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

- Charles Derber

source: Charles Derber (2014). “Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

topic: Government, Corporations, Illusion, Cornerstones, Mystique

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

- Joe Morton

topic: Play, Looks, Actors, Mystique

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

- Myriam Miedzian

source: Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

topic: Men, Self, United States, Mystique, Deep Friendship

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

- Betty Friedan

topic: Editors, Trying, Magazines, Mystique, Feminine Mystique

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

- T. R. Fehrenbach

source: T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media

topic: Heart, Texas, Crucible, Mystique

As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Girl, Character, Gay, Mystique, Easier Times

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

- Graham Greene

source: The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)

topic: Blood, Hands, Water, Mystique, Communism And Socialism

When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

- Mary Gaitskill

source: Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

topic: Girl, Kids, Boys, Mystique

We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

- Betty Friedan

source: "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

topic: Mother, Mean, Home, Mystique, Wife Mother

What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Father, Men, World, Mystique

When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Boys, Men, Guilt, Mystique, Moral Development

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

- Joan Jett

topic: Thinking, People, Singing, Mystique

The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

- Robert Pattinson

source: "He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Undead" by Alex Pappademas, www.gq.com. February 28, 2009.

topic: Way, Kind, Shut Up, Mystique

I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

- Alex Gibney

topic: Feel Better, Apples, Magic, Mystique, Sad Things

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

- Miranda Richardson

topic: Thinking, Giving, Dumb, Mystique

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

- Nicole Scherzinger

topic: Stars, Missing, Way, Mystique, Old Hollywood