Masculine Quotes - Page 4

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Women, Brain, Usual

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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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• The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine 'privilege' and power. He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself-emotionally, psychologically and physically.

  Herb Goldberg

  Games, Males, Purpose

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• Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Duplicity, Brain, Usual

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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• The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.

  Eva Green

  Men, Jeans, Trying

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• The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

  RuPaul

  Night, Masculine And Feminine, Opposites

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

  Joss Whedon

  Long, Television, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Jobs, Men, Wages

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• I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

  Cecily Brown

  Men, Ownership, Abstraction

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• With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Purpose, Half, Glory

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• [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Fancy, Beard, Feminine

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• Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Oysters, Years, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strong Women, Mind, Well Known

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• There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Couple, Female, Muse

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Crazy, Writing, Sound

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.

  Estelle Ramey

  Leadership, Running, Organization

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• I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.

  Tracy McMillan

  Thinking, Order, Masculine And Feminine

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• My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Men, Seductive, Discrimination

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• Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Mean, Rocks, Paper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Strong Women, Want

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• I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Long, Balance

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• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  Hanna Rosin

  Powerful, Men, Psychology

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• For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Fashion, Strong

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• Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

  Gloria Steinem

  Work, Home, Men

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.242, Open Road Media

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