“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.” MenWayKindMadeFactsAbilityTreatsFeminineInteriorsAbility To See Author:Robert Johnson
“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.” PeopleWayKindLittlesPlaySeemsStrongOffersGunToughMy WayFeminineStrong WomenTanksBrasHackersTank TopsTough Women Author:Angelina Jolie
“Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.” KnowsWellsImportantHardBodySeemsArtistFightingPerfectForgetDealsAudienceViolenceCrazyMissingFiguresEvidenceTraditionPerformancesRefuseFocusedStuckSignificantBitterFeminineCorpsesInvitingPrototypeAntigoneHavishamMiss Havisham Author:Laura Mullen
“I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.” ThinkingChildrenSoulRememberLeftSidesBandHappeningsHatedFeminineComing OutMetalsPunkBotheredMtvMetallicaLeft And Right Author:Stephen Malkmus
“When you come from a privileged household, we've been able to buy monthly feminine products since the first day that we got our periods. A lot of women out there have absolutely no means to be able to afford something that seems as simple and as much of a no-brainer as a feminine product. I think Monthly Gift has a really brilliant cause - giving underprivileged girls free feminine products every month.” ThinkingGivingFirstsMeanSeemsAbleGirlCausesSimpleProductsMonthsPeriodsBrilliantFeminineHouseholdPrivilegedUnderprivilegedNo Brainer Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.” KindFashionStyleFeminineRevealingSilhouettesFashion And StyleWomanly Author:Emmy Rossum
“Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.” MenMeanRealConsciousnessAspectLiberationFeminineIntegrating Author:Marianne Williamson
“As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!” EvolutionOffersEncouragementFeminineArcsArousal Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.” FeelsYearsLooksKindMadeSelfBodySportsPowerfulLetting GoTrainingConsciousIdealsTasksCompetitionTrackAll KindsEtcFeminineTransformedSelf Conscious Author:Lauren Fleshman
“People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.” PeopleHumansValuesConsciousnessJourneyInvolvedAspectFeminineReceptiveHuman ConsciousnessInner Journey Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think it's a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I think you need a balance of both. I think right now we're just so in the extremes and people are just conditioned and given these gender assignments very early on.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsEnergyGivenBalanceRight NowExtremesGenderFeminineVersusNurturingAssignmentsMotheringFeminine Energy Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.” I CanAttractiveFeminineCouches Author:Kathy Bates
“I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.” KindFoundBornRolesModelsCastsFeminineRole Models80sDallasDynasty Author:Caitlin Moran
“You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.” PeopleThinkingLooksStoriesHomeActionSidesLinesNiceWifeFrontsBalanceHeavyFeminineMasculineReally NiceMasculine And Feminine Author:Abby Brammell
“Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.” CharacterStoriesRealityFoundPeriodsLosingShotsComplexesPatientFilmmakerFeminineMasculineMeekUnforgivingHarshness Author:Chloe Zhao
“Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.” KnowsMenWritingRealDoneCharacterStoriesUseKnow HowFiveExampleInspireHeroFemaleComplexesIncrediblesDefinitionsFeminineVillainExpandingReal ThingsFemale CharactersReal Women Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.” WayWantFirstsLooksProblemCertainSufferingGirlFeltSilenceMonthsConsciousFirst TimeFeminineContinuityBrasMovie SetsBinders Author:Mara Wilson
“There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.” MenStyleFeminineMasculineLeadership Style Author:Jill Soloway
“Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.” StuffEnjoyClassMiddleAccessConsumersMiddle ClassGoodsFeminine Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.” MenHateSidesI HateFeminineI Hate Men Author:David Bailey
“I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.” FeelsValuesBecomingMatureFeminineFascinatedBecoming More Author:Park Chan-wook
“There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.” OpportunityWishAwarenessEqualFeminineEqual Opportunity Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general view of the feminine was rather misogynistic, with women playing the role of the forbidden other, waiting to pounce on innocent little monks! In that society, it was hard for women to become educated and get the deeper teachings and really become accomplished.” LittlesBookHardWaitingViewsRolesWrittenTeachingBuddhismDeeperInnocentEducatedAccomplishedFeminineForbiddenMonk Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.” WantLooksTwoIdeasTodayFormTroubleMovementIdealsGenderEngagedCriticizeFeminineMasculineCritiqueIntersexMorphology Author:Judith Butler
“I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.” ThinkingKnowsImportantBodyFailingGayConceptsSexualityTraditionalComplexityWho We AreFeminineCategoriesMasculine Author:Judith Butler
“You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.” FeelsMayPersonsTermActivityComplexesOneselfSexualityEvolveConfusedFeminineCaptureUsualMasculineTransformingDynamicsPassivity Author:Judith Butler
“No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.” MenHas BeensMatterProblemBigsLeftCreativeRecordsFieldsBrilliantAccomplishedFeminineBig ProblemsGreat Women Author:Siri Hustvedt
“Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.” IndividualSidesGenderFeminineWholenessMasculine Author:Peter Buffett
“Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.” MenWayAgeAspectVarietyFeminine Author:Peter Buffett
“I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.” PeopleTryingSaidCountryGrowsAttitudeWorshipEnglandGoing AwayFeminineThey SaidMasculineQuarrelsCropsManly Author:Quentin Crisp
“Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'” AttentionDivineWineLongingEvolveFeminineSufiMasculineHierarchyVerticalDivine Feminine Author:Robert Bly
“The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.” WorldYoungFeminineMasculine Author:Quentin Crisp
“We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.” HumansMovingIdentityExpressionBoxesFeminineMasculineContinuumBinary Author:Gloria Steinem
“I tend to keep my style very classic. I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine floral things. I'm not very edgy.” StyleInspiredClassicFeminineEdgyGirlyRetro Author:Ariana Grande
“I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.” MenNeedsBelieveEnergyRealizingMen And WomenBoxesFeminineMasculineFeminine EnergyMasculine And Feminine Author:Nelly Furtado
“I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.” PeopleIfsI CanTwoPlaySidesTreatsGuitarSupposed To BeFeminineImpressedCoinsChordsTwo SidesHandicappedDainty Author:Kesha
“There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.” IfsWritingWellsKindStillsDifferentUseBeautifulLanguageCan DoRichStylePrejudiceCleanWorkersMalesFeminineMasculineVery BeautifulProletariatBourgeoisieSlangDifferent LanguagesWriting StyleRich Women Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.” DoeWould BeLanguagePiecesMathematicsInsaneFeminine Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.” MenWritingBodySpeakFeminine Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.” BelieveHumansKindOne ThingConditionsFeminineHuman ConditionMasculineUniversality Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.” ThinkingWayWantKindEndsCryUniversalFeminineAnother WayGhettoSingularity Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.” MenWritingMeanSexQualityMarkSupposed To BeSensitiveFeminineSensationsBest WorkVirginiaContemplativeWoolf Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.” PeopleKnowsMenWantWritingShowsGraceKingsExtraordinaryFeministFranceFeminineOrdinary PeopleOccasionalGaga Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Jewelry is incredibly feminine, and reflects the grace and beauty of a women's style like nothing else.” GraceStyleFeminineJewelry Author:Ivanka Trump
“As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.” PeopleLongPlayYoungRolesEconomicPolicyCreatingMajorsEconomicsCaringFeminineEconomic PolicyCaregiving Author:Riane Eisler
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling
“In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is a bit quieter, we live in a masculine-dominated society. It is the front-forward force that runs the world. And that's not the fault of men by any means, that's just the way the world works.” ThinkingMenWorldWayMeanRunningForceBitsFrontsAspectFaultsPsychologicalFeminineDelicateFemininityMasculineReceptiveApathetic Author:Laura Marling
“I really, really do believe that the future of being successful in work is going to be about embracing all of those wonderful things women bring - empathy, collaboration, flexibility - all those wonderful feminine traits we've suppressed for too long.” BelieveLongSuccessfulWonderfulEmpathyBeing SuccessfulFeminineCollaborationTraitsFlexibilityWonderful Things Author:Mary Portas
“I think that it is true that for me as I observe it, that the Western World tends to be more of , tends to encompass more of, the masculine energy of the planet itself, the planet's population. Whereas the Eastern part of the world tends to encompass more of the planet's population's feminine aspects. And for those reasons the East and the West tend to approach God very much as men and women do. So the differences between East and West are the differences between men and women, largely.” ThinkingMenWorldReasonEnergyDifferencesPlanetsApproachMen And WomenAspectWestWesternPopulationEastFeminineEasternMasculineWestern WorldEast And WestDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will now move into a place of enormous influence and enormous impact, as that energy creates a confluence of all the energies surrounding our experience of deities, of the Tao of God, and our expression of that experience in our daily lives.” Has BeensMovingEnergyInfluenceExpressionBalanceImpactMalesEnormousDaily LifeFeminineTaoDeitiesFeminine EnergyConfluence Author:Neale Donald Walsch