Masculine Quotes - Page 3

• Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

  Kate Clinton

  Form, Produce, Cheaper

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• Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

  Carol P. Christ

  Males, Doe, Pronouns

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• 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

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Debate, Feminine, Conversation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.77

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• 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

  Sex, Powerful, Perfect

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.466, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  Vera Miles

  Love You, Men, Double Standard

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

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• Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

  Charles Bronson

  Directors, Looks, Casting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

  Scott Bakula

  Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides, People

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• 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

  Maturity, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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• 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

  Death, Women, Independent

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• 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

  Mean, Males, Female

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

  Renee Vivien

  Beauty, Ugliness

  Renée Vivien (1979). “At the sweet hour of hand in hand”

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• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Epic, Masculine And Feminine

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• I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Men, Years, Law

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

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• A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Women, Views, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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• You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Lasts, Last Time

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom
  and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

  David Deida

  Struggle, Creative, Political

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• I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Psychosis, Hysteria

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• Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Fighting, Survival Mode, Energy

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• The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

  Margaret Mitchell

  Women, Brain, Usual

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