Essence Quote by Marina Warner

“The female form lends itself best to represent matter because both create life within themselves. The male form lends itself best to represent soul…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Male and female are created through the erotization of dominance and submission.”

— Catharine MacKinnon

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal…

— Charles Bukowski

“The difference between the masculine and feminine spiritual constitution is represented by their respective roles in reproduction. The man is the giver while the…

— Chana Weisberg

The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of…

— David Deida

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

— Judith Butler

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens…

— Margaret Fuller

[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and…

— Will Cuppy

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

— Judith Butler

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens…

— Margaret Fuller