Feminine Quotes - Page 20

• When I think of a bombshell, I immediately think of Bridget Bardot. She's a woman who is so secure and just oozes sexy. Whether you are super feminine or more into that boyish style, you just own your look.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Sexy, Thinking, Style

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• I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel that no work done by a woman in the field of science or culture or whatever, however vigorous or demanding, can enter into conflict with her ancient 'wonderful mission' -- to love, to be loved -- and with her craving for the bliss of motherhood.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Believe, Motherhood, Done

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• Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dresses, Want, Matter

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• 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

  Uplifting, Opportunity

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

  Sandra Bartky

  Males, Female, Born

  Sandra Lee Bartky (2012). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.65, Routledge

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• It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Attitude, Skills

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• I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Careers, Forget

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.101, Crown/Archetype

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• I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

  Joanna Russ

  Hero, Special, Want

  Joanna Russ (2010). “The Female Man”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• You don't have to be just the sex kitten. You can be a sexy, feminine woman, but also have a strong voice and be a warrior, at the same time.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Sexy, Strong, Warrior

  "VIKINGS: Katheryn Winnick Talks Lagertha, Collaborative Process, and Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2015.

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• Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Grace, Delicacy

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 175, 1975.

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• I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

  May Sarton

  Expression, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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• We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.

  Leonard Shlain

  Technology, Thinking, Years

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• Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Sexy, Scent, Fragrance

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• 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.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Expression, Empathy, Culture

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• The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Ideas, Bye

  Ms. magazine, p. 41, August 1972.

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• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Two, Support

  Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• My dad treated me like a boy because he grew up with four brothers. He didn't baby me. He was never, like, "You're a girl, you can't do this." I never felt like I had to put a feminine spin on anything, I just wanted to do what the boys did as good or better.

  Kid Sister

  Girl, Baby, Brother

  "Kid Sister: 'I'm Gonna Fart on Usher!'". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Philosophy, Spring, Feet

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Horse, Hands

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Order, Life And Death

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• Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Necks, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Emotional, Animal

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.152, U of Nebraska Press

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• O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

  John Milton

  Wise, Angel, Men

  1665 Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888-95.

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• The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.

  Valerie Solanas

  Insecure, Men, Individuality

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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