Masculine Quotes - Page 14

• I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old fashion tough guys, run some risk.... This guy is very much an old fashioned masculine, muscular guy, and there are political risks associated with that. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that’s how it is.

  Brit Hume

  Running, Fashion, Guy

  "Brit Hume Thinks Chris Christie’s Too Much Of A Man For Our ‘Feminized’ Culture", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

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• A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

  Tom Hardy

  Boys, People, Quality

  "Inception hunk Tom Hardy admits: 'I've had sexual relations with men'". www.dailymail.co.uk. 28, July 2010.

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• 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

  Strong, Scotland, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

  Irina Lazareanu

  Thinking, Issues, Empowering

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• There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.

  Otto Weininger

  Taken, Simple, Animal

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• To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

  Nancy K. Miller

  Writing, Unorthodox, Violation

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• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Roles, Gender

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

  Clive Owen

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

  "Milan Party Report: New Masculinity, Clive Owen-Approved" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Masculine And Feminine, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  Adam Carolla

  Trying, World, Calories

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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. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

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• In the beginning, I thought that women needed protection, on a style level, to have the right impact to let them realize their desire for success. Now, many years later, women no longer need a masculine uniform. Women have changed.

  Giorgio Armani

  Impact, Years, Style

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.

  Doug Hepburn

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Mirrors

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• I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sister, God, Women

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• For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Two

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Teaching, Use

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

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• I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

  Marietta Holley

  Angel, Son, Equality

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• For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Gestures, Virtue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Culture, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Masculine And Feminine, Circles, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Ancient

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.65, Routledge

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• 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

  Wish, World, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House with the Seven Gables” & “Twice-Told Tales” (Including Biography)”, p.76, e-artnow

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• I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sunday, Church, Judgmental

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

  Benjamin Percy

  Smell, People, Pull Ups

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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