Dominance Quote by Sheila Jeffreys

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

— Sheila Jeffreys

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

— Dan Levy

Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have…

— Hamid Drake

Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of…

— Johnny Weir

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

— Rad Hourani

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

Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is…

— Frank Pittman

To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility,…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All of this…

— Lierre Keith

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's…

— K. D. Lang

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

— Patricia Hill Collins