Masculine Quotes - Page 13

• It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

  Marietta Holley

  Equality, Men, Thinking

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113

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• The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

  Helen Rowland

  Sex, Vanity, Illusion

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• On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Thinking, Class

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• Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

  Gloria Steinem

  Bullshit, Feminist, Humanity

  "Gloria Steinem On What Men Have To Gain From Feminism" by Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2015.

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• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  Eva Burrows

  Needs, World, Today

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• I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Flower, Thinking, Fake

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

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• I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.

  Jemaine Clement

  Character, Play, Balance

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.

  Urijah Faber

  Fighting, Avoided, Has Beens

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• If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

  June Singer

  Grace, Feminine, Masters

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• American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

  Noel Gallagher

  Sports, Football, Loss

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• It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.

  Robert Silverberg

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

  Florence King

  Boys, Names, Males

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• The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.

  Mario Testino

  Photography, Fashion, Attitude

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• Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  W. H. Auden

  Appreciation, Men, Discipline

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• I would probably say David Bowie and Prince are the perfect people. They dress feminine/masculine and they're really sexy. Not many people can wear high heels and look sexier than a woman!

  Aino Jawo

  Sexy, High Heels, People

  "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo On Their New Album, 'this Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Adversity

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• Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

  Lynne Stewart

  Strong, School, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Clint: The Life and Legend". Book by Patrick McGilligan, 1999.

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• Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Journey, People, Goal

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.

  Julie Bindel

  Real, Play, Squares

  "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Men, Thinking, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Philosophy, Males

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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

  Judith Butler

  Masculine And Feminine, Roles, Fixed

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