I have no objection to a man being a man, however…

When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I…

— Lorde

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

— RuPaul

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair…

— Alexa Chung

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were…

— Helen Andelin

Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought…

— Anonymous

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s…

— Robert Silverberg

We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him,…

— Frank Pittman

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

— Camille Paglia

“To be feminine is to allow yourself to be constantly FEELING into the sensual woman you were designed to be.”

— Lebo Grand

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order…

— Tracy McMillan

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

— Camille Paglia

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…

— Grimes

I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.

— Kali Uchis