Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
Frank O'Connor

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
William Moulton Marston

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
Marlo Thomas

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
Judith M. Bardwick

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
Dan Brown

Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward Fitzgerald

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer

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

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

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Cillian Murphy

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
Jane Campion

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag