#feminine

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#focused #hard #i #man #person

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. ↗

— Stendhal

#close #feminine #found #had #himself

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#except #feminine #having #masculine #nothing

Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#beauty

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#decadent #emile-zola #feminine #joris-kerl-huysmans #nature

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#american #american women #burying #feminine #millions

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers

The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids? ↗

— Anita Johnston

#femininity #mermaids #self-empowerment #wisdom #dreams