Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out… — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I overhear the soldiers whispering. That terrorist looks a bit butch. They laugh. I turn to glare right into their mindless sheep… — Claudia Salazar Jiménez Copy Share Image
Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to champion stories from trans women and trans women of color. That demographic has gone unheard and… — Rhys Ernst Copy Share Image
The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
“This led me very promptly to the conviction that those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotions/experiences. There also just seems to be a certain feeling/mood that… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I associated my parents with individual flavors. It was the same way you might filter someone through… — Charlotte Silver Copy Share Image
It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
My dad treated me like a boy because he grew up with four brothers. He didn't baby me. He was never, like,… — Kid Sister Copy Share Image
“Being a woman, I have found the road rougher than had I been born a man. Different defenses, different codes of ethics,… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Men often joke about this assignment (I Peter 3:7): 'Who can understand a woman?' God has answered the question loud and clear.… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It's amazing to see there aren't boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men… — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it...Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
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