Human beings Quote by Gloria Steinem

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

— Corey Stoll

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

— Sigmund Freud

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do…

— Rita Mae Brown

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

— Jim Harrison

I don’t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,

— Eileen Collins

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

— Tenzin Palmo

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for…

— Larry McMurtry

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

— Alan Ball

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing,…

— Gloria Steinem

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

— Meredith Monk

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

— Anohni