Hilary Knight

At first, I felt like I was put into this box because I played hockey. I thought that I was viewed a certain way, and I shouldn't wear certain clothes. Finally, I stepped aside and said, 'That's someone else's creation of me. I can be feminine and be strong.

American Athlete

Deepak Chopra

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

American Speaker

Erma Bombeck

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

American Journalist

Kaia Gerber

I'm inspired by people embracing their feminine power and just being who they truly are and not afraid to express themselves.

American Model

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

German Poet

Beyonce Knowles

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

American Musician

Paulo Coelho

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Brazilian Novelist

Gianni Versace

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

Italian Designer

Leslie Jordan

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

American Actor

Dan Brown

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

American Author

Reflects cultural perceptions of gender; may evolve over time with changing social attitudes.

Cultural Context

'Feminine' doesn't mean only women or girls can possess those features or styles.

Not Exclusivity

Different languages have various ways of expressing feminine grammatical gender.

Language Variation

Some languages don't have feminine forms, and gender-neutral language is used.

Non-Gender Languages

Feminine as a noun refers to a sense of identity and can be expressed uniquely.

Personal Identity

Feminine often implies softness or sensitivity, but this is a generalization.

Emotional Connotation

'Feminine' includes traits and behaviors, not just physical attributes or style.

Beyond Appearance

Perceptions of what is considered feminine can differ internationally.

Cultural Variance

What is regarded as feminine can change with fashion trends and eras.

Changing Times

 I thought I was pretty well versed on the social construction of gender and how sexism is a devaluing of the feminine and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly. But this situation, this aversion to a bag full of pink stuff, forced me to explore my rejection of highly feminized things in my child's world.

What it's like to be a...

 I had to come up with a strategy, so that I could just pee in peace. So anytime I would enter a restroom, I would thrust out my chest to show my womanly parts, and try to be as non-threatening as possible. Putting out my hands and saying, "Hello", just so that people could hear my feminine voice.

This Is What LGBT Life...

 But the more I thought about his question, the more I thought there might be something feminine about feminism. That is to say, there might be something, on average, different about female brains from male brains that makes us more attentive to deeply complex social relationships,

Alice Dreger: Is anatomy...

 thing as we try to encourage women to see politics as more of our domain we have to get comfortable with the fact that there is nothing that says that being feminine and being a woman is not compatible with politics um i i love both of those answers um and i want to

Recruiting Women for...

 massive for got my word I'll pick it up next time basically we can go from a network a structure up to a surface as your face being the minimal definition of space and closure another project nine methylone at the Centre Pompidou in Paris part of the feminine

Experiencing art as...

 that is called non-Euclidean geometry. And this is actually the field of mathematics that underlies general relativity and is actually ultimately going to show us about the shape of the universe. So there is this direct line between feminine handicraft,

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 had come together, had a baby, a baby I needed to get to know. So I decided to give it a try. My first spoken-word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant,

If I should have a...

 you exert over the many through gender income race and class I think that the time is right to make fundamental changes in our civilization but for real change we need feminine energy in the management of the world we need a

Tales of passion -...

 and also with the strong feeling in our stomach that this wasn't sustainable, to found a financial services firm based on our values, and we decided to incorporate feminine values into the world of finance.

Halla Tomasdottir: A...

 And all he said was, "Thank you." I've been this guy. I get it. See, publicly, he was just playing his role, rejecting the feminine, right?