Quotes About Feminine

At the human level, in Jungian terms – the Goddess whispers to a man's anima, his buried feminine aspect, and the God speaks out loud to his male emphasis; while the God whispers to a woman's buried male animus, and the Goddess speaks out loud to her female emphasis.

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

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

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

By giving up the feminine as an identity, the feminist simultaneously undermines the masculine as well. Masculine identity depends on its feminine counterpart that affirms it as its complementary other. Without this support, masculine identity collapses. This is why the feminist struggle against feminine identity Beauvoir advocates is a battle against patriarchy.

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I'll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female.

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.

Wenn eine Frau ihre Fehler nicht charmant begehen kann, ist sie nichts als ein Weib.

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope... Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves. No, sir. There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't. Very true, sir.

I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet. I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy. The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting.

There has never been only one religion of the goddess. Every continent, every culture, had its own vision of the way that divine feminine should be pictured. Each culture pictured her as one of their own. She was black in Africa, blonde in Scandinavia, round-faced in Japan, dark-eyed in India. For the goddess was the essence of woman's strength and beauty to each one of her daughters, so she had to look like them. When ancient women looked at their goddess, they saw themselves.

Rather than being a bleeding image of female disempowerment, Medusa may be read as... one of the most ancient European symbols of women's spiritual abilities... [and] an empowering image of feminine potential.

The Goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

The immanent goddess did not create the rose; she is the rose. She does not take care of you; she is you.

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - life out of balance - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.

I teach him how to pair such technique with masculine or feminine caesura, or the joys of alternating iambic foot with unstressed pyrrhic, or the self-indulgence of the frequent spondee. I