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“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?”

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Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.”

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Book:Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

“Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.”

Female Feminist Characteristics

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless molecule and a deadly addictive one.”

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Author:Roald Hoffmann

“Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.”

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Author:David A. Bednar

“Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.”

Want Persons Shows Seems Given Black Issues Special Involved Gay Female Blind Occasions Supposed To Be Characteristics Minorities Sensitivity Defining Disabled Political Correctness Offence

Author:Lynne Truss

“Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“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.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington