Feminine Quotes - Page 29

• If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Issues, Arrogance, Males

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• Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Iran, Iraq

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2010.

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• My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Feminine Beauty, Architect, Form

  "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong". Tracy Metz, Architectural Record (p. 35), December 1997.

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• I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

  Gianni Versace

  Beautiful, Clothes, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

  Rachel Roy

  Strong, Thinking, Interesting

  "Designer Drop-In: Rachel Roy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, slide 5, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 07, 2011.

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• I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Athlete, Trying

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• Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.

  Clementine Ford

  Simple, Views, Order

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this … It is this feminine side of God I find in Jesus that makes me want to sing duets with Him … Not only do I love the feminine is Jesus, but the more I know Jesus, the more I realize that Jesus loves the feminine in me. Until I accept the feminine in my humanness, there will be a part of me that cannot receive the Lord’s love. … There is that feminine side of me that must be recovered and strengthened if I am to be like Christ … And until I feel the feminine in Jesus, there is a part of Him which I cannot identify.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Duets, Want

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• The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Acceptance, Personality, Might

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Believe, Thinking, Barbie Dolls

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• Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Gains, Supremacy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.101, Penguin

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• The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Lying, Believe, Balance

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• It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

  Miuccia Prada

  Strong, Masculine And Feminine, Way

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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Important, Denial

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• Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Leadership, Girl, Sports

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• Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

  Alexa Hampton

  Dream, Reality, Masculine And Feminine

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• REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Desire, Denial, Lasts

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, College, Important

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Rio De Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 22, 2013.

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• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Marriage, Evil, Nuclear Families

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• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Memories, Real

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

  Pauline Kael

  Thinking, Males, Punching

  Interview with Susan Goodman, Modern Maturity, www.paulrossen.com. March/April 1998.

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• Anytime that we - and when I say "we," I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women - do anything that is centered on our own pleasure or desire, it's seen as frivolous. But learning how to love your own body and finding pleasure in something that has brought you pain [in the past] is so important. I think that it's probably a greater struggle for trans folk, because we struggle more with our bodies.

  Janet Mock

  Pain, Struggle, Love You

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the globe to reinforce this new-found power in the body. Women have been divided to be conquered. No one person did this. It's been a cultural evolution. The masculine nature is very out there and vocal and very much espousing their point of view, and God bless them. The female culture needs to learn to do the same.

  Sheila Kelley

  Thinking, Culture, Female

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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