Feminine Quotes - Page 23

• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Fashion does seem to have a 20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. Its a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Fashion, Doe, Looks

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• If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

  May Sarton

  Art, Children, Book

  "The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering".

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• ...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Fun, Shopping, Found

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• A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Memories, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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• I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

  Hedi Slimane

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Ideas

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• 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

  Country, Masculine And Feminine, Born

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• I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Men, Years, Law

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

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• The fragrance that suits me best is Romance by Ralph Lauren. It seems to blend into my chemistry, so it is nice and subtle. I don't like to be doused in scent. This one is feminine, fresh and a bit musky.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Nice, Romance, Scent

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• We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Feminine Beauty, Luxury, Brands

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• I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.

  Eva Green

  Being Yourself, Fun, Hate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.

  Jessica Chastain

  Falling In Love, Cuddling, Sweaters

  "Exclusive: Jessica Chastain on Red Lipstick, Fashion Week, and Dressing High-Low". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. September 6, 2012.

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• On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Thinking, Class

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• Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Coward, Littles

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• One only really loves from a feminine position.

  Jacques-Alain Miller

  Position

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• Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

  Jason Wu

  Careers, Dresses, Way

  "What A Difference A Day Makes: An Interview With The Suddenly Superfamous Designer Jason Wu". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Sex, Moving, Men

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Hero, Voice, Violin

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.

  Andrej Pejic

  Insecure, Hands, Feet

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• I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Years, Honor

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

  Mick Jagger

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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• A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Perception, Sentimental

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Women, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.199, Ignatius Press

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• I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

  Orlan

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

  Helen Rowland

  Sex, Vanity, Illusion

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