Feminine Quotes - Page 22

• 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

  Sex, Males, Body

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Order, Economy, Thrifty

  Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'

  Twiggy

  Wings, Bingo, Way

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• A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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• I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

  Eric Roberts

  Directors, Needs, Sensibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Men often joke about this assignment (I Peter 3:7): 'Who can understand a woman?'  God has answered the question loud and clear.  You can.  You can understand a woman.  Husbands can understand wives if they will take the time and energy to focus on them as feminine persons who need their husbands' honor.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Atheism, Normal

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.6, Rowman Altamira

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• History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.

  Antony Hegarty

  Home, Men, People

  "Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.

  Madchen Amick

  Ideas, Empowering, Ironic

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Mean, Eye

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• To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

  Patty Schemel

  Play, Use, Legs

  Source: collider.com

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• Each woman is made to feel it is her own cross to bear if she can't be the perfect clone of the male superman and the perfect clone of the feminine mystique.

  Betty Friedan

  Perfect, Males, Bears

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

  Jules Renard

  Women, Shadow, Victim

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Two

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

  Isabel Bishop

  Voice, Way, Speak

  Helen Yglesias, Isabel Bishop (1989). “Isabel Bishop”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

  Oliver Herford

  Women, Sound, Noise

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• If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

  Rosemary Casals

  Tennis, Screws, Ifs

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• I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Character, Unique, Clothes

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• It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Men, America, Chinese

  "Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.

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• The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Ecosystems, Mind, Pipeline

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• Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Acceptance, Scotland, Dominance

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.31, Anchor

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• I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Kings, Believe, Successful

  "5 of Our Favorite Things Zooey Deschanel (Glamour's February Cover Star!) Shared With Us". www.glamour.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

  Susan Estrich

  Republican, Politician, Democratic

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