Feminine Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Father, Latin, School

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• Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Reality

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• I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

  Jessie Ware

  Want, Classic

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• I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

  David Walton

  Energy, Grew Up, Grew

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

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

  Jean Smart

  Dixie, Bars, Mets

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

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• In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

  Judy Chicago

  Principles, Female, Fundamentals

  Judy Chicago (2007). “The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation”, Merrell Pub Limited

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• I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Girly, Thinking, Rocks

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Female, Done

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• Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. […] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization.

  Julia Serano

  Expression, Childhood, May

  Julia Serano (2007). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.323, Seal Press

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• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

  Georgette Heyer

  Passion, Eternal, Bargains

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Cotillion”, p.118, Random House

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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• It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Military, Thinking, Resistance

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

  Anais Nin

  Labels, Matter, Speak

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• Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Given, Faculty, Ashamed

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Opposites, Giving

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.34, Penguin

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• 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

  Real, Men, Laughing

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.121, HQN Books

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• Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing." He reached around her and fingered the soft material. "Where is the rest of it?" He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

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• On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sports, Sexy

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• 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

  Thinking, Keys, Unnecessary

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mind, Culture, Body

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.

  Julia Serano

  Eye, Fighting, Female

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• What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

  Estelle Ramey

  Differences, Males, Female

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• Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Sex, Rights, Race

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