Quote by Jan Greenberg

“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness”

— Oscar Wilde

“She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts – an illusion…

— Margaret Mitchell

“All human beings, independent of a dominant gender orientation, embody qualities of the masculine and feminine, and the whole of humanity has suffered from…

— Danielle Dulsky

“Her features were dainty, her small slender wrists climbed up to become the delicate shoulders that beckoned him. Her skin was like peach-tinted cream…

— Faraaz Kazi

“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips…

— Elena Ferrante

“Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the…

— Walter Scott

“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.”

— Jan Moran

“I think it is the masculine energy or man’s subtle, not overt, energetic influence that’s responsible for building a solid sensual feminine identity.”

— Lebo Grand

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...]…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She seemed the incarnation of girlish scorn and wilful”

— Doma Publishing House