Best Masculine Sayings
236 Masculine quotes by 197 unique authors
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Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening…
— James Q. Wilson
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All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom...…
— Aphra Behn
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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…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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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…
— Mark Driscoll
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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased…
— Clifford Geertz
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There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
— Bonnie Raitt
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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male…
— Camille Paglia
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Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It…
— Camille Paglia
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A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
— Judith Butler
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's…
— Barbara Hepworth
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The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has…
— Katharine Graham
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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…
— Otto Weininger
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
— Rachel Roy
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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 and…
— Alexa Chung
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An idea that is confident always looks masculine.
— Thom Browne
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To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed…
— Helen Andelin
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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.
— Unknown Author
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions…
— Anna Seward
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to…
— Florence King
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
— Vera Miles
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Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
— Unknown Author
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Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
— Hermione Gingold
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There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with…
— Rebecca Lobo
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