Feminine Quotes - Page 5

• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Symbolic Meaning, Mysterious

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

  Ida Lupino

  Hate, Men, Female

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Epic, Masculine And Feminine

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Treated, Idealistic

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• Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Virtue, Invention, Masculine

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• Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

  Stendhal

  Weapons, Found, Terrible

  Stendhal (2008). “The Red and the Black”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sex, Masculine, Having Sex

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• I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

  Cathy Freeman

  Role Models, Be Who You Are, Roles

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

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• If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

  Colin Greenwood

  Editing, Looks, Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, History

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

  Barbara Kolb

  Emotional, Pieces, Sensitive

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• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  Garry Trudeau

  Exercise, Insecurity, Becoming

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• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Germaine Greer

  Agony, Creating, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

  David Hare

  Truth, Masculine And Feminine, Honor

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• I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong Women, Gun, Play

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• I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

  Portia de Rossi

  Beautiful, Fashion, Jeans

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

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• The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

  Gloria Swanson

  Age, Firsts, Necks

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• Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

  George D. Prentice

  Mistake, Thinking, Order

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Confused, Men

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• Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Dark, Mouths

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• Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Men, Understanding

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• The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doe, Masculine, Minors

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• A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Feminist, Modesty, Being A Woman

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