O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
I could go anywhere, but I always like to have a bit of a feminine touch to everything I do.
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Anytime that we - and when I say "we," I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women - do anything that is centered on our own pleasure or desire, it's seen as frivolous. But learning how to love your own body and finding pleasure in something that has brought you pain [in the past] is so important. I think that it's probably a greater struggle for trans folk, because we struggle more with our bodies.
One only really loves from a feminine position.
Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?
It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.
Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?
As a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny.
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.
If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.