Feminine Quotes

• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  

  Debby Applegate
  • Book
  • Words
  • Brilliant

• 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
  • Action
  • Female
  • Empty

• I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.

  

  Wesley Strick
  • Sides
  • Feminine
  • Nurturing

• 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
  • Humans
  • Order

• My pheromones and my chemistry and the way I walk - I am divine feminine energy.

  

  Princess Nokia
  • Energy
  • Chemistry
  • Feminine

• There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Men
  • Style
  • Masculine

• When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Laughter
  • Laughing
  • Behavior

• 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
  • Instruments
  • Register
  • Sopranos

• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Style
  • Paint
  • Funky

• When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.

  

  Nia Long
  • Fun
  • Mom
  • Feminine

• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mean
  • Dark
  • Safety

• Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

  

  Sanaa Lathan
  • Sexy
  • Weak
  • Feminine

• I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Feminine
  • Devastated

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

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Guy
  • Laughing
  • Cry

• I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Flower
  • Fake
  • Uncomfortable

• Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

  

  Deborah King
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Feminine

• When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Women
  • Jokes
  • Behaviour

• It is shameful that there are so few women in science. In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

  

  Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Chinese
  • Accomplishment
  • Scientist

• 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
  • Masculine
  • Idea of Paradox
  • Authentic fabrics

• 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
  • Aggressive
  • Troubles
  • Masculine

• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Return
  • Psychedelic

• Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Success
  • Feminine
  • Cringe

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