Masculine Quotes

#1. He was blond, about six feet tall, muscular, and absurdly good-looking in a rugged, masculine way, as if God had taken Brad Pitt and decided to make him really handsome.

Jeff Lindsay

#2. She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot's.

Kerry Greenwood

#3. Hey, it's totally masculine. It's cowboy butt sex.

Sophie Oak

#4. My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.

Tom Waits

#5. My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

Jason Reitman

#6. If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

John Eldredge

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

Susan Sontag

#8. My lady, don't you think you might be over-extending yourself? You've decided to confront the gyorn, liberate the court women from masculine oppression, save Arelon's economy, and feed Elantris. Perhaps you should just let this man's subterfuge go unexplored.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

Rachel Roy

#10. We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

Siri Hustvedt

#11. I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.

Marianne Williamson

#12. I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

Chloe Sevigny

#13. At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

Barbara Hepworth

#14. And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts.

Julia Serano

#15. A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

Tom Hardy

#16. But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.

Margaret Fuller

#17. 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

#18. The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it ...

David Deida

#19. The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Karen Horney

#20. It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Corey Stoll

#21. Why is it" - she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower - "that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?"
A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. "Because I'm a smart man.

Nalini Singh

#22. The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

David Deida

#23. In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Myriam Miedzian

#24. The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.

Bryant McGill

#25. The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

Laozi

#26. I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Marianne Williamson

#27. I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Renee Vivien

#28. Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

Paulo Coelho

#29. 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

#30. She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored.
Born black in a land where might is white and white is adored.
Born female in a land where decisions are masculine and masculinity controls.

Maya Angelou

#31. As i looked into his face, my arms encircled around his waist, smelling his wonderfully masculine scent, i wonder how i can deny that what we had was more then friendship?

Kailin Gow

#32. 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

#33. As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Samuel Johnson

#34. I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?

Edward W. Robertson

#35. There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Rebecca Lobo

#36. I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

Lykke Li

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. A huge blue and white umbrella unfolded out of the vehicle, followed by two legs clad in a masculine-sized pair of gumboots. The driver nudged the door shut and ploughed through the downpour like a striped galleon, only his oilskin coat and denim-clad calves showing.

Tracey Alvarez

#40. What's going on here?" asked a deep voice at her elbow.

Anne turned to find her guardian standing beside her. He looked solidly masculine and incredibly competent to deal with the child's wizened master and even with the spectators to what had turned into a near spectacle.

Gayle Wilson

#41. Masculine sexiness. But, the man behind that deep and

Lauren Blakely

#42. 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

#43. Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

Barbara Kolb

#44. I'm sorry about dragging you into my evil schemes with my masculine wiles. I didn't realise, um, the force of my own wiliness. I don't actually use my wiles a lot.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#45. Every man is womanised, merely by being born. They talk of the masculine woman; but every man is a feminised man.

G.K. Chesterton

#46. 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

#47. People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

Benjamin Percy

#48. Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one.

M.F. Moonzajer

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

M.F.K. Fisher

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence.
Joe Morelli

Janet Evanovich

#55. For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

Harry Shearer

#56. 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

#57. The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

Marianne Williamson

#58. Dost though even know what would become of me? Thou dost not." She exhaled sharply. "Friends would disown me. It is our way. I would be alone!"

"No," he said unexpectedly. He turned and held his hand to her, palm upward, empty, a simple masculine offering. "Maddygirl. With...me.

Laura Kinsale

#59. Am I ... not what you were expecting?
Of course, my immediate instinct is to say no. No, you're not what I was expecting. You're so heavy and solid and masculine that I just want to climb you like a tree, and maybe live on your face for a couple of decades.

Charlotte Stein

#60. When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

Gloria Steinem

#61. Some actors, they have to carry this macho, very masculine element to them, but it's difficult for me to understand that.

Romain Duris

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

Henry Makow

#63. Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

Stacy London

#64. The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

Barbara Goldsmith

#65. He was a drool-worthy, panty-drenching, yummy work of masculine art.

Kelly Moran

#66. 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

#67. I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Alanis Morissette

#68. I always wear something slightly masculine.

Evangeline Lilly

#69. American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood. But

Camille Paglia

#70. I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

Christian Louboutin

#71. She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.

Colette

#72. Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk

G-Dragon

#73. By playing these games about "arbitrary" gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak "masculine" anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.

Douglas Wilson

#74. 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

#75. For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Glenda Jackson

#76. It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

Arianna Huffington

#77. And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.

Elena Ferrante

#78. 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

#79. Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

Layne Redmond

#80. What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard.

David Sedaris

#81. This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

Alice Munro

#82. I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

Mekhi Phifer

#83. It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

Samantha Morton

#84. There was something aggressively masculine about Toloose ... perhaps it was the look in his eye. Or the way he was holding his billiard cue. It was amazing the way a man in an embroidered coat could take on the air of a dockworker.

Eloisa James

#85. 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

#86. Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

Steven R. McQueen

#87. He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.

William Faulkner

#88. I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.

Patti Stanger

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.

Louisa May Alcott

#92. 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

#93. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Hermione Gingold

#94. All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

#95. I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Thomas Middleditch

#96. 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

#97. The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Margaret Mitchell

#98. There's nothing I find more sexy - more incredibly hot - than a strong, masculine man with tears in his eyes. You've no idea what you're doing to me, Grif.

Joseph Lance Tonlet

#99. MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road - literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.

Gloria Steinem

#100. Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

George Boole