Feminine Quotes - Page 4

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

  George Gilder

  Males, Female, Levels

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• Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Quality, Essentials

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• There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sex, Differences, Feminism

  Mother and Son ch. 10 (1955)

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• I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

  Rajneesh

  War, Quality, World

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1987). “A New Vision of Women's Liberation”, Osho International

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Reading, Holocaust, Feminist

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• Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No logic can be higher than love, and no mind can be higher than the heart. But the mind can be very murderous; the mind can be very violent, and that's what the mind has done for centuries. Man has been beating women, repressing women, condemning women.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Sex, Men

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• Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Feminist

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

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• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  Eva Burrows

  Needs, World, Today

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• People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

  Martina Navratilova

  Girl, Sports, Athlete

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

  Anais Nin

  Women, Self, Historical

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• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

  Una Stannard

  Men, Emotional, Thinking

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• Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Guy

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 53, September 1, 2004.

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• I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

  Julie Andrews

  Believe, Males, Doe

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

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• Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

  Minna Antrim

  Mistake, Intuition, Quality

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• The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Women, Creativity, Receiving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

  Robert Johnson

  Men, Way, Facts

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• I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

  Portia de Rossi

  Smart, Successful, Thinking

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

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• Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

  Judith M Bardwick

  School, Taught, Conformity

  Judith M. Bardwick (1972). “Readings on the psychology of women”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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