#feminine

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice. ↗

— Paulina Rubio

#countries #different #different countries #example #expresses

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

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#belief #essence #faith #family #feminine

Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic. ↗

— Charles Bernheimer

#joris-karl-huysmans #lunatic #moon #romantic

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#clothes #feminine #help #i #look

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#curiosity #feminine #forms

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#debate #feminine #masculine

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

— Jane Campion

#directors #feminine #happening #i #states

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.' ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#earner #felt #feminine #fiddle #how