I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
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.
I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an insulting one. It's as insulting to men as it is to women. I'm not sure what masculine writing would look like - I assume some combination of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. Writing can't be gendered in that way.
Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.
Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.
Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.
It's amazing to see there aren't boundaries around gender. My menswear business has changed over the years as far as what men are daring to wear. And women, too. Men wanted to look tough, but now they realize you don't have to look like your granddad or dad. You can show a more feminine side.
. . . a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.
Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
I'm not only in touch with my feminine side, I'm in touch with my gay side as well.
You always have access to your truth. You always have access to the divine feminine.
I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.