Quote by Stendhal Download Open image ““Feminine delicacy was carried to excess in Mme de Renal.”” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“For Cumming the Christian and feminine imperative of service far outweighed superficial notions of female delicacy. Employing one dimension of feminine ideology to dismiss… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The feminine mystique, elevated by Freudian theory into a scientific religion, sounded a single, overprotective, life-restricting, future-denying note for women. Girls who grew up… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“My early years, my weakling, teething, vaccination, memoirs of the various nursery maids, I dismiss unrecorded: if the Faculty desire a narrative of this… — Le Comte Du Bouleau [Pseud Attributed Copy Share Image
“a painful menopause was the presumed consequence of reproductive organs that were not regularly bathed in male semen.” Yet” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Although scholars such as Butler have debated such approaches as reinforcing problematic identity models and creating an either/or distinction, Lather is referring to the… — Jill Green Copy Share Image
“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for announcing one's… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.” — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
