Top 100 Masculine Feminine Quotes
#1. The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.
Irina Lazareanu
#2. The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.
Germaine Greer
#3. It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
Gloria Steinem
#4. Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#5. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Judith Butler
#6. 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
#7. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.
Bai Ling
#8. To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.
Gina Barreca
#9. 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
#10. I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.
Joss Whedon
#11. Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
Mick Jagger
#12. If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
#13. 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
#14. Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare
#15. If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
Ellen Key
#16. I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.
Milla Jovovich
#17. 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
#18. Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#19. Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.
Orson Welles
#20. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.
Amish Tripathi
#21. The masculine sun/solar consciousness shines its vision, direction, and warmth onto the earth; the feminine moon consciousness reflects the light, thus illuminating the dark.
Elisa Romeo
#22. Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
David Deida
#23. The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
Edna Ferber
#24. I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
Hamid Drake
#25. It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine.
Stacy Schiff
#26. Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.
Daniel Odier
#27. The Lord is saying literally, "Thou art 'Petros' [the masculine form of the word], and upon this 'petra' [the feminine form of the word] I will build My church. Thou art a rock, Peter, and upon this rock, I will build My church.
J. Dwight Pentecost
#28. 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
#29. It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.
Miuccia Prada
#30. It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
Gwendoline Christie
#31. 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
#32. Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.
Frederick Lenz
#34. When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
Lorde
#35. The self is the same. Either you wear a masculine peel or a feminine peel. That is all it is.
Sadhguru
#36. Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
Alexa Hampton
#37. What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#38. I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me things and I can relate on two levels simultaneously.
Truman Capote
#39. Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
June Singer
#40. True equality of the sexes comes when a psychological unity of the masculine and feminine forces of one's own mind has been made.
Serena Jade
#41. The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
Terence McKenna
#42. Studies introduced ideas such as the theory that parents pushing their children to play with gendered toys meant children learned to act a certain way according to whether they were a boy or a girl, which was then taken to mean they were "naturally" feminine/masculine.
Harriet Dyer
#43. Parvati and Shiva are the divine embodiment of creativity (the feminine) and consciousness (the masculine). She is the generative energy of the universe; he is its formless wisdom. Whatever
Elizabeth Gilbert
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure.
When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto.
Nikki Rowe
#47. Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.
Miya Yamanouchi
#48. The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
Helen Rowland
#49. [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#50. I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.
Tracy McMillan
#51. I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look.
Marie Helvin
#52. Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How
Christopher Moore
#53. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller
#54. Narnia, held captive by the "post-Christian" Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.
Louis A. Markos
#55. Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent
#56. If You Pay Close Attention, You will See that the Most Masculine Man has a Feminine Soul, and the Most Feminine Woman has a Masculine Soul.
C. G. Jung
#57. You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.
Michael Kors
#58. I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.
Grace Jones
#59. I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.
Johnny Weir
#60. Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
David Deida
#61. There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
Bonnie Raitt
#62. If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indigntantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now for both sexes a source of distress.
Simone De Beauvoir
#63. Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.
A.D. Aliwat
#64. Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#65. What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine.
Libba Bray
#66. The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won't complain about her feminine energy.
Nityananda Das
#67. It is the sex of the novels and not that of their authors that must interest us. All great novels, all true novels are bisexual. This is to say that they express both a feminine and a masculine vision of the world. The sex of the authors as physical people is their private affair.
Milan Kundera
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.
Shamir
#71. I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.
John Malkovich
#72. Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
Aristotle.
#73. Why is it a surprise that I'm a girl? Did I seem particularly masculine online?" "No, but ... you didn't seem particularly feminine," Max said. "What does that even mean?" He massaged the corners of his eyes. "I don't know. Forget it." "You didn't seem particularly sexist online, but here we are.
E.C. Myers
#74. The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
Rajneesh
#75. Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
Marlo Thomas
#76. Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
Judith Butler
#77. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
John Milton
#78. Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine,
Virginia Woolf
#79. Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.
Henry Makow
#80. We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.
Frederick Lenz
#81. When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.
Matthew Fox
#82. The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
Marianne Williamson
#83. What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.
RuPaul
#84. 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
#85. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?
Thomm Quackenbush
#86. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.
C.S. Lewis
#87. In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms ... the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
Manly Hall
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
Hanna Rosin
#93. 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
#94. Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, enrapturing both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit.
Sai Marie Johnson
#95. 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
#96. A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
David Deida
#97. Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
#98. 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
#99. For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.
Fredric Wertham
#100. Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
Mata Amritanandamayi
