Masculine And Feminine Quotes

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Two Sides, Diversity

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Two Sides, Fluid

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

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• There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Women, Rising Up, Energy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

  Corita Kent

  Men, Feminism, He Man

  1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

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• If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Talking, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, World, Spirit

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• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Maturity, Personality, Sides

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• Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

  David Deida

  Feminine, Aspect, Masculine

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• Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Balance, Energy, Needs

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Ideas, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

  Dan Brown

  Two, Balance, Males

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Men, Energy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Perfect, Rhyming

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

  Judith Butler

  Roles, Fixed, Feminine

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• By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.

  David Deida

  Healing, Home, Heart

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• In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

  Robert Greene

  Play, People, Worry

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.51, Profile Books

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• The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Strong, Past

  "The Power of the Feminine Self: Manhood Liberated from Violence Against Women" by Payam Akhavan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

  David Hare

  Truth, Honor, Purity

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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, Two, Long

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

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• The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

  David Deida

  People, Flow, Energy

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• We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Quality, Principles

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.87, New Victoria Publishers

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• We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Personality, May

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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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, Personality, Genius

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• Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Passion, Epic, Epigrams

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