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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. -- David Hare
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. -- Corita Kent
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. -- Charles Baudelaire
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. -- Germaine Greer
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. -- Jeff Buckley
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings. -- David Deida
Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing -- Loretta Chase
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world. -- Andrew Dominik
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. -- Judith Butler
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. -- Aristotle
Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal. -- Arjuna Ardagh
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved. -- David Deida
When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves. -- Matthew Fox
A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner. -- David Deida
The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . . -- David Deida
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.' -- Robert Bly
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex. -- Marlo Thomas
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. -- Karl Kraus
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. -- Scott Bakula
Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. -- June Singer
My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine. -- Jason Reitman
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. -- Susan Sontag
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. -- Susan Sontag
In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy. -- Gerard Butler
Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink. -- Stacy London
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. -- Deepak Chopra
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things. -- Tamsin Egerton
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. -- Mary Esther Harding
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. -- Katharine Graham
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. -- George Boole
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. -- Betty Friedan
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal. -- Isla Fisher
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? -- Carol P. Christ
The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. -- John Gerzema
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat. -- Hedy Lamarr
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue -- Clifford Geertz
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue. -- Clifford Geertz
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. -- Dan Savage
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. -- Barbara Hepworth
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. -- Ambrose Bierce
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets. -- Carine Roitfeld
I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure. -- Grace Jones
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex -- Beatrice Wood
I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships. -- Tracy McMillan
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 cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -- Thomas Aquinas
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. -- Anthony Trollope
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. -- Arianna Huffington
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. -- Gloria Steinem
When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous. -- Ronda Rousey
I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so I'd love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine. -- Baltasar Gracian
I always wear something slightly masculine. -- Evangeline Lilly
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. -- David Duchovny
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I'd like to do a really masculine film. -- Park Chan-wook
An idea that is confident always looks masculine. -- Thom Browne
It's important to have masculine energy around your child. -- Samantha Morton
The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions. -- Helen Rowland
My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face. -- Tom Waits
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do -- Frank Pittman
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. -- Marilyn Monroe
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli -- Janet Evanovich
We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine. -- Sandra Bartky
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly. -- Lloyd Alexander
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war. -- Jane Lynch
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. -- Vera Miles
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain -- Margaret Mitchell
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. -- Ken Follett
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. -- Renee Vivien
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. -- Gloria Steinem
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. -- Adrienne Rich
There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine -- Bonnie Raitt
The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine. -- Quentin Crisp
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. -- Kelly Sue DeConnick
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses. -- Zaha Hadid
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine. -- Laozi
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be. -- Agnes Smedley
What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously. -- RuPaul
If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation. -- Mart Crowley
I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is! -- Darren Hayes
The union of feminine and masculine energies within the individual is the basis of all creation. -- Shakti Gawain
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. -- Germaine Greer
Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one. -- Henry Makow
The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine. -- Marianne Williamson
If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine. -- Meat Loaf
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world. -- Adam Carolla
I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move. -- Jolene Blalock
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. -- Gloria Steinem
I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look. -- Milla Jovovich
I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish. -- Kristina Schroder
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this? -- Cecily Brown
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . -- Arianna Huffington
Men and women are created by God.Men need women, women need men.Appreciate masculine and feminine qualities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong. -- Miuccia Prada
It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. -- Gwendoline Christie
He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted. -- Karen Marie Moning
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned. -- John Evelyn
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men. -- David Gordon Green
Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. -- Marta
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. -- Mary Quant
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. -- Nancy K. Miller
He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning. -- Karen Marie Moning
A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also. -- Urijah Faber
I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. -- Colin Trevorrow
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance. -- Arjuna Ardagh
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself. -- Annie Lennox
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. -- Barbara Kolb
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. -- Myriam Miedzian
I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that. -- Matthew Perry

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