Androgynous Quotes

• A great mind must be androgynous.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Great Minds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

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• Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

  June Singer

  Relationship, Opposites, Trying

  June Singer (1989). “Androgyny: The Opposites Within”, Sigo Pr

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• An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Mind, Males, Invisible

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.36, Vintage

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• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  Lady Gaga

  Way, Androgyny

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• Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Believe, Thinking, Barbie Dolls

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• As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• My style has always been very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous.

  Erin Wasson

  Style, Easy, Relaxed

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Girl, Guy, Androgyny

  "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Thinking, Energy, Female

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Military, Cutting, Goal

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 1, 2005.

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• Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Bisexual, Virginia, Steps

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.33, Bantam

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• I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

  Carrot Top

  Sexy, Hate, Hair

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, New York, School

  "Chloe Sevigny Men’s Collection". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Family, Husband, Wife

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• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Leadership, Sweet, Revenge

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

  May Sarton

  Expression, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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• You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

  Michael Moore

  Debate, Satire

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• If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

  John Travolta

  Macho, Ifs

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• I can have an androgynous quality.

  Lara Stone

  Quality, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

  Todd Haynes

  Giving Up, Bisexual, Unique

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mean, Community, Identity

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• when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Essentials, Faculty

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Two

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Saint, Shy, Looks

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