We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“What is a woman to me? The answer must be: A projection. Who is projecting, and for what reason, I cannot necessarily… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look… — Margaret Cho 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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 confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The higher the heel, the more drastic it can get. But I do need heels to perform, which is strange. I can't… — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly,… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler 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
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
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