Masculine And Feminine Quotes - Page 2

• The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

  RuPaul

  Night, Opposites, White

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a matter of attitude. I am convinced that the woman who understands and accepts with gladness the difference between masculine and feminine will be, without pretense or self-consciousness, womanly.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Attitude, Real, Men

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.171, Revell

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• I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Character, Men

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• It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

  Miuccia Prada

  Strong, Way, Stills

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• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Class, Effort

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

  RuPaul

  Gay, Icons, Quality

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex

  Beatrice Wood

  Life, Sex, Views

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• There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

  Bonnie Raitt

  Music, Shapes, Feminine

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Women, Ancient, Modern

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.65, Routledge

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

  Alexa Hampton

  Dream, Reality, Design

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• I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

  Hedi Slimane

  Thinking, Ideas, Fabric

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• I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Country, Born, Young

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• You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.

  Abby Brammell

  Nice, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

  Milla Jovovich

  Mixing, Looks, Fabric

  "Model Minute: Mila Jovovich". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

  Scott Bakula

  Two Sides, People, Mates

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• I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast with the rise of transgender rights that are questioning what all these categories are.

  Kim Longinotto

  Men, Thinking, Rights

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers, but sex is like a snake, it slithers through everything.

  Ernesto Neto

  Sex, Snakes, Speak

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• 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 to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.

  Hamid Drake

  Men, Quality, Yang

  Source: the-attic.net

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• I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.

  Tracy McMillan

  Thinking, Order, Opposites

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