Masculine Quotes - Page 10

• Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

  Judith Butler

  Two, Feminine, Gender

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

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• Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Creativity, Writing

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

  Grimes

  Brother

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Kind, Feminine

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

  Erykah Badu

  Color, Style, Moss

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• And then he pressed into her. First his thighs, then his middle, his chest, and finally his mouth. She made a whimpering sound, but its definition was unclear even to her, until she realized that her arms had gone around him instinctually, and that she was clutching his back, his shoulders, her hands restless and greedy for the feel of him. He kissed her openmouthed, using his tongue, and when she kissed back, she felt the hum that vibrated deep inside his chest. It was the kind of hungry sound she hadn’t heard in a long time. Masculine and carnal, it thrilled and aroused her.

  Sandra Brown

  Hands, Long, Sound

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• Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.

  Elif Safak

  Eye, Years, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I didn't want to fight a guy from England. What if I lose? Not that English guys aren't strong, but who wants to get beat up by a guy with that voice? That's not the most masculine voice to take a beating to.

  Jay Mohr

  Strong, Fighting, Voice

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• 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

  Wise, Energy, Needs

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• I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

  Darren Hayes

  Beautiful, Moon, Knows

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• Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

  Brad Stine

  Women, Sides, Way

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• While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

  Harriet Lerner

  Husband, Women, Skills

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Masculine And Feminine, Clothes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

  Marina Warner

  Gentleman, Special, World

  Marina Warner (2013). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, OUP Oxford

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• The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more - is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Reality, Ideas

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Fragility, Audience, Persons

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• There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Culture, Contemporary

  "David Gordon Green and Emile Hirsch on Sundance and Feeling Horny". Interview with Mina Hochberg, www.vulture.com. January 22, 2013.

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• In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

  Manly Hall

  Men, Body, Arms

  Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.249, Penguin

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• The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

  Leigh Hunt

  Attractive, Sensible, Supposing

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.73

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• A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wall, Hair, Giving

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.146

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• Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!

  David Deida

  Dancing, Connections, Culture

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• This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Wife, Brain, Female

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

  Glenda Jackson

  Pride, Men, Independence

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