Masculine Quotes - Page 12

• If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Talking, Masculine And Feminine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, World, Feminine

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• The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

  Camille Paglia

  Energy, Succeed

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Taken, Trying, Males

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

  Marie de Gournay

  God, Stupid, Philosopher

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• It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

  Marietta Holley

  Equality, Men, Thinking

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113

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• In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Men, Self, United States

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Character, Men

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• How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Sex, Moving, Men

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Integrating, Liberation

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

  Wesley Snipes

  Beautiful, Want, West

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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• I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id 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

  Real, Hero, Intelligent

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• I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

  Gloria Steinem

  Bullshit, Feminist, Humanity

  "Gloria Steinem On What Men Have To Gain From Feminism" by Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2015.

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• On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Thinking, Class

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• The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

  Helen Rowland

  Sex, Vanity, Illusion

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• Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

  Mick Jagger

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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• 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

  Hero, Voice, Violin

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Acceptance, Boys

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• The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

  David Deida

  Masculine And Feminine, People, Flow

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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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• When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Doctors, Sick, Historical

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

  Andrew Dominik

  Confused, World, Modern

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