Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal."
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Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin."
Stendhal
Novelist
"Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"Words are feminine; deeds are masculine."
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"I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads."
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"The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine."
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation."
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"The eternal feminine draws us on high."
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"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest."
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"Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche"
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"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
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"The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine."
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"When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me."
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"Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy."
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"There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe."
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"The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]"
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"Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that."
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"Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you"
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"I could go anywhere, but I always like to have a bit of a feminine touch to everything I do."
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"...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do."
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"Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest."
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"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."
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"Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine."
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