You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another.… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“There was something aggressively masculine about Toloose . . . perhaps it was the look in his eye. Or the way he… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there… — Rebecca Lobo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think,… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,'… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other… — Plato Copy Share Image
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
“It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him...… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
“-flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic symbol… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine… — Ernesto Neto Copy Share Image
When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image