Masculine Quotes - Page 6

• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Source: ilga.org

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• You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

  Judith Butler

  Confused, Usual, May

  Source: ilga.org

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• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Brother, New York

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

  Gail Carriger

  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.

  Judith Butler

  Gay, Thinking, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

  Robert Bly

  Wine, Divine Feminine, Attention

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Humanity

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• I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?

  Kenny Wormald

  Fun, Kids, Men

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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, Masculine And Feminine, Ideas

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Facts, Popularity, Phenomenon

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.159, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Definitions, Study

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• I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Vivid, Weaving

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• Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

  Henry Makow

  Roles, Males, Female

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• It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

  Tertullian

  Office, Church, Speak

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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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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Hero

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• My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

  Dylan Lauren

  Girl, Names, Parent

  "Dylan Lauren: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me". www.usmagazine.com. May 01, 2013.

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• Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

  David Duchovny

  Humility, Quality

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• I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.

  Orlan

  Men, Males, Female

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

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• We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

  Jeff Dunham

  Dog, Nice, Silly

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

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• Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

  Jane Lynch

  Football, War, Metaphor

  "Jane Lynch Talks About the GLEE Super Bowl Episode and Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2011.

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