Feminine Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• ...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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• Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

  George Sampson

  Letters, Grew Up, Peter

  "12 Sick Burns From People Who Didn’t Get The Jane Austen Hype" by Sara Boboltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015.

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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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• The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Simple, Complicated

  Henry Adams “The Letters of Henry Adams”

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• The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

  James Mackintosh

  Sex, Philosophy, Grace

  Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.217

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• [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Fancy, Beard, Pronouns

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• Shopping, true feminine felicity!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Shopping, Felicity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.16

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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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• I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

  Joss Whedon

  Long, Television, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

  Isabel Allende

  Feminist, Males, Magazines

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• Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  Larry King

  Looks, Enhancement, Journalism

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• Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

  Georges Bataille

  Attitude, Apotheosis, Natural

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• It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Way, Familiar, Meetings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's a male pornographic fantasy that we're buttoned-up all day and let our boobs hang out at night. The truth is, some girls are very girly and feminine, and they love to wear makeup and high heels. Other girls are more tomboyish, and they don't.

  Cara Santa Maria

  Girl, Makeup, Night

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The higher the heel, the more drastic it can get. But I do need heels to perform, which is strange. I can't perform in flats because I've built up this...I don't know, this sexual side that I find myself moving and getting into the music more when I'm feeling a little more feminine.

  Sarah Barthel

  Moving, Feelings, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

  Stella McCartney

  Sexy, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was so important and powerful. That is something our scene has - regardless of who is in it, it has this very powerful feminine energy, like a Nefertiti head bust or Storm from X-Men. It's a woman you see as very powerful, sassy, arrogant, and dark.

  Le1f

  Powerful, Sassy, Dark

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• It was that surrender he needed. That complete feminine submission to every stroke, every caress, ever naughty act. Only in that submission would the subconscious trust, the bond he needed between them, come. He wanted her to trust, to know, to instinctively understand that he was more than just her lover; he was her other half. The one she told her secrets to. The one, she made secrets with.

  Lora Leigh

  Naughty, Secret, Half

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• When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

  Rob Bell

  Cutting, Voice, Sacred Feminine

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• The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, Men, Weapons

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• When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Names, Culture

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