#feminine

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#i #me #people #same #see

I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#feminine #how #i #i think #interesting

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

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#age #feature #feminine #first #goes

Taste is the feminine of genius. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#genius #taste

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

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

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

#fiction #genders #genres #unquestionably #were

She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans.... But she is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy. ↗

— Hildegard of Bingen

#beauty