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“Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.”

Looks Character Voice Rich Depth Males Gender Feminine Boyish Sandalwood

Author:Richard Ouzounian

“At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.”

Wells Lying Fantasy Roots Filled Curiosity Feminine Worldview Manufacturing Shyness Childlike Delicacy

Author:Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.”

Men Grows Challenges Praise Appreciation Feminine Masculine

Book:The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.”

Giving Self Hands Bits Boys Saint Appearance Impression Pockets Feminine Cigarette Assurance Composure Self Assurance Like A Boy

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.”

Ifs Should Suffering Literature Voice Fellows Artistic Feminine Fairness Timeless Temperament Detectives Wrists Timber Artistic Temperament

Author:Loren D. Estleman

“Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?”

Ifs Men Different Play Decision Taken Player Fans Media Fashion Example Football Clothes Female Balls Excuse Soccer Why Not Feminine Aesthetic Controversial Volleyball Lighters Shorts Excuse Me

Author:Sepp Blatter

“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”

Men World Littles Running School Support Design Approach Tragedy Males Designer Officials Organized Feminine Masculine

Book:City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning

Source: City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning

“Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.”

Should Mistake Quality Intuition Conclusion Feminine

Author:Minna Antrim

“You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.”

Thinking Stills Successful Smart Finance Feminine Successful Women

Author:Ruzwana Bashir

“There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.”

Air Gay Quiet Laughter Nostalgia Grass Feminine Bells Recalls Spontaneous Floating Springtime Chapel Fluent Solemnity Somber

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.”

Men Has Beens Energy Sex Term Patterns Contact Feminine Aggressive Masculine Reducing Polarity Castration

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“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.”

Men Years Sex Results Quality Knowing Dying He Man Males Unhappy Confused Feminine Not Knowing Homosexual Herds Emancipation Women Want Misfits Pansies

Author:Ian Fleming

“If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Children Steps Break Birth Morality Survival Ethics Necks Feminine Realistic Unwanted Yoke

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”

Writing Wells States Earth Order Social Justice Common Ready Expression Interpretation Feminine Masculine Consensus Ripe Fraternity Social Order

Author:Anna Garlin Spencer

“Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.”

Feels Sex Women Fine Comfortable Refuse Feminine Occasional

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Men Women Quality Intuition Feminine Men Women

Book:The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

Source: The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

“That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.”

Care House Pieces Car Clothes Dresses Dinner Health Care Restaurants Buying Feminine Shopping Clothings Fewer Underwear Ardor Clothes Shopping

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

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

Ifs Men Helping Understanding Relationship Married Feminine Masculine Married Life

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”

Writing Whole Lying Values Turns Social Existence Compassion Moral Vision Class Middle Pity Middle Class Feminine Honour Sympathy Spheres Centre Humanitarianism Confined Upper Class

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.”

Made Sexy Admire Feminine Turner Curvy Women

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“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.”

Used Style Blue Paint Setting Settings Feminine Mainstream Nails Show Business Funky Feeling Blue

Author:Sara Blakely

“Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they work on my body.”

Body Fun Design Sexy Bags Feminine Kate Spades Rebecca

Author:Katrina Bowden

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Too Much Flower Dresses Uncomfortable Fake Feminine Combat Boots Masculine Ugh Combat Boots

Author:Moon Bloodgood

“I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.”

People Thinking Men Sometimes Seems Mistake Paris Feminine

Author:Saskia de Brauw

“Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.”

Looks Enough Faces Certain Girl Comedy Willing Lucky Ugly Supposed To Be Feminine Hideous Unlearn Demure

Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Bits Rocks Style Feminine Rock N Roll Girly Different Styles

Author:Kristin Cavallari

“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.”

Enjoy Roles Models Who You Are Feminine Role Models Being A Woman Be Who You Are Being A Role Model

Author:Cathy Freeman

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

Ifs Looks Objects Computer Warm Feminine Editing Bass Curvy

Author:Colin Greenwood

“There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.”

Strong Particular Unique Universal Feminine Sense Of Humor Southern Universality Southern Women

Author:Connie Britton

“I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.”

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Author:Jessica Chastain

“I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.”

Giving Wells Kind Feminine

Author:Mark Feuerstein

“I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.”

Want Persons Mother Wife Feminine Good Person Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Peaches Geldof