“My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.” WellsLittlesStyleColorSeasonsPantsMasculineMossPaletteBlazersLooseness Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” FilmQualityDirectorsActressesProducersFeminineMasculineManly Author:Bai Ling
“There is false of Aristotelian logic, which is so much the basis of Christianity, and to some extent, Judaism in the west. Too rational, too logical, too masculine, chauvinistic, male dominated, head over heart, mind over body, heaven different than earth and so on, rather than yin/yang, inter-being, interwoven, inseparably.” MindHeartDifferentBodyEarthHeavenChristianityLogicBasesWestMalesRationalLogicalJudaismMasculineYang Author:Surya Das
“And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they are very different. I think they come off very differently. I think they come off, I don't know if it's masculine or outward, extroverted than introverted. I didn't know. It's just been a process.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingDifferentSongProcessBornStageMasculineDiggingIntroverted Author:Justin Vernon
“I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.” YearsI CanFactsSchoolRememberFacesNamesTenStandardsDecidedCall MeBusRecallsMasculineAthleticElevenBulliedElementary SchoolChantingBeing BulliedSchool Bus Author:Andrew Solomon
“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.” FeelsIdeasCertainConsciousnessMasculineDeludedGlorification Author:Marianne Williamson
“Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.” MeanI CanLiberationMasculineTemperamentIntegrating Author:Marianne Williamson
“The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.” MenMeanStrongRolesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtToughCodeLive ByPrisonerExtensionsMasculineBe A Man Author:James Fox
“The fight world is definitely a masculine thing, but I think it's pretty masculine if someone can avoid a fight also.” IfsThinkingWorldFightingMasculine Author:Urijah Faber
“A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.” Has BeensFightingMasculineAvoidedDemeanor Author:Urijah Faber
“You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.” PeopleThinkingLooksStoriesHomeActionSidesLinesNiceWifeFrontsBalanceHeavyFeminineMasculineReally NiceMasculine And Feminine Author:Abby Brammell
“Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.” CharacterStoriesRealityFoundPeriodsLosingShotsComplexesPatientFilmmakerFeminineMasculineMeekUnforgivingHarshness Author:Chloe Zhao
“When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.” TryingFirstsLooksKindSaidUseTodayBrainGoneComputerDoctorsSickHistoricalLifetimeLegacyShockingMasculineProgrammersComputer ProgrammersAda Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.” MenStyleFeminineMasculineLeadership Style Author:Jill Soloway
“There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.” WrittenCoupleFemaleMuseMasculine Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.” IfsWayWritingMayMightSoundCrazyHomosexualMasculine Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.” BlackStyleDressesJeansMasculine Author:Zaha Hadid
“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.” WantLooksTwoIdeasTodayFormTroubleMovementIdealsGenderEngagedCriticizeFeminineMasculineCritiqueIntersexMorphology Author:Judith Butler
“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.” ThinkingKnowsImportantBodyFailingGayConceptsSexualityTraditionalComplexityWho We AreFeminineCategoriesMasculine Author:Judith Butler
“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.” FeelsMayPersonsTermActivityComplexesOneselfSexualityEvolveConfusedFeminineCaptureUsualMasculineTransformingDynamicsPassivity Author:Judith Butler
“Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.” IndividualSidesGenderFeminineWholenessMasculine Author:Peter Buffett
“I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.” PeopleTryingSaidCountryGrowsAttitudeWorshipEnglandGoing AwayFeminineThey SaidMasculineQuarrelsCropsManly Author:Quentin Crisp
“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.'” AttentionDivineWineLongingEvolveFeminineSufiMasculineHierarchyVerticalDivine Feminine Author:Robert Bly
“The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.” WorldYoungFeminineMasculine Author:Quentin Crisp
“We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.” HumansMovingIdentityExpressionBoxesFeminineMasculineContinuumBinary Author:Gloria Steinem
“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.” MeanKidsSchoolGamesRoomsTeamInfluenceNew YorkBrotherCoupleBasketballCaughtStealingGradesThrownMasculineVisitingHeroinLamePlaygroundsLockersLocker RoomSupervisionBasketball GameSeventh Grade Author:George Carlin
“I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.” MenNeedsBelieveEnergyRealizingMen And WomenBoxesFeminineMasculineFeminine EnergyMasculine And Feminine Author:Nelly Furtado
“I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang.” SometimesEnergyToo MuchEmbraceMasculineYang Author:Nelly Furtado
“One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.” HouseWhiteWifeOne ThingTrumpTraditionalWhite HouseMasculinityMasculinePutinParadesParodyPhilippinesHyperUnsurePatriarch Author:Stephen Marche
“Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.” LooksFactsHandsFatherStyleBuildingTaughtTrumpEightTraditionalBlockTiesShakesMasculineParodyBuilding Blocks Author:Stephen Marche
“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.” ThinkingMenIdeasDifferentRealityStrongSensitiveConventionalMasculineObedientFrailDominating Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.” KindEndsProblemWould BeCertainHoursMillionsLaborBlowFlyingRevolutionaryCapitalistMasculineAlliancesPresent DayHousework Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.” ImportantSometimesHelpingAcceptingCuttingConditionsPositionAmbitionStandardsPostsMasculinePersonal Success Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.” ThinkingTryingMeanCertainValuesDifficultAcceptingFeministMasculineImpotencePretextDialectics Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.” GivenClearCrazyNormMasculineBeing Crazy Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.” IfsWritingWellsKindStillsDifferentUseBeautifulLanguageCan DoRichStylePrejudiceCleanWorkersMalesFeminineMasculineVery BeautifulProletariatBourgeoisieSlangDifferent LanguagesWriting StyleRich Women Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.” BelieveHumansKindOne ThingConditionsFeminineHuman ConditionMasculineUniversality Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.” ThinkingKnowsLightFormIssuesIntellectualDebateHeatMasculine Author:Gloria Steinem
“In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is a bit quieter, we live in a masculine-dominated society. It is the front-forward force that runs the world. And that's not the fault of men by any means, that's just the way the world works.” ThinkingMenWorldWayMeanRunningForceBitsFrontsAspectFaultsPsychologicalFeminineDelicateFemininityMasculineReceptiveApathetic Author:Laura Marling
“I think that it is true that for me as I observe it, that the Western World tends to be more of , tends to encompass more of, the masculine energy of the planet itself, the planet's population. Whereas the Eastern part of the world tends to encompass more of the planet's population's feminine aspects. And for those reasons the East and the West tend to approach God very much as men and women do. So the differences between East and West are the differences between men and women, largely.” ThinkingMenWorldReasonEnergyDifferencesPlanetsApproachMen And WomenAspectWestWesternPopulationEastFeminineEasternMasculineWestern WorldEast And WestDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I just want a man -a real, two-balled masculine guy -and there aren't many of them around, believe me. But I do want somebody my own age, and somebody who has brains enough to keep me interested and to earn enough money to support me in the style to which I've become accustomed.” MenWantBelieveTwoRealEnoughAgeGuyMy OwnBrainSupportStyleBelieve In MeAccustomedMasculineSupport Me Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“When we awaken the love for God, that love naturally extends toward every living being. Also, the concept of Krishna and Radha, the masculine and feminine aspect of the one supreme God, was so inclusive that it touched my heart. So when Prabhupada came, I was already following his path. But it was when I saw his compassion, concern and deep wisdom, that I accepted him as my guru and decided to try and assist him. I felt that was where my real home was.” TryingHeartRealHomeCompassionPathMy HeartConcernAcceptedGod LoveFeminineMasculineGuruKrishna Author:Radhanath Swami
“My favorite actor on the planet is Gena Rowlands and she plays women who, to me, somehow defy gender. They are women, they are feminine, they are masculine, they are everything. There's something exciting about that. I don't know how to articulate it exactly. I guess it's busting out of the archetypes a little bit and not feeling restricted.” FeelingsExcitingMy FavoriteGenderFeminineMasculineArchetype Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author, you either love yer peeps or you don't. There's no such thing as a "masculine voice" or a "feminine voice". Men and women think and speak and act in, like, a zillion different ways. Also, as a gross generalization: women tend to live closer to their feelings than men.” ThinkingMenDifferentFeelingsSpeakTermEmotionalMen And WomenGenderFeminineGrossMasculine Author:Steve Almond
“I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the globe to reinforce this new-found power in the body. Women have been divided to be conquered. No one person did this. It's been a cultural evolution. The masculine nature is very out there and vocal and very much espousing their point of view, and God bless them. The female culture needs to learn to do the same.” ThinkingCultureEvolutionFemalePoint Of ViewBlessFeminineMasculineGod Bless Author:Sheila Kelley
“It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed the earth to be viewed only as a commodity to be exploited. The feminine perspective sees things differently. She sees the earth and all its inhabitants as entities to be revered and cared for. She sees individual human beings as more important than the relentless advance of capitalism and competition. It is my hope, perhaps indirectly expressed in my work, that the divine feminine is reawakening.” ImportantEarthIndividualDivinePerspectiveCapitalismCompetitionFeminineCommodityMasculineRelentless Author:Mark Ryden
“I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.” PeopleThinkingFemaleOkayYour FaceAggressiveRapperMasculineSexuallyHypocriticalNot Okay Author:Iggy Azalea
“I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was fascinated by the way she wore trousers. So I think the romanticism of the movies also influenced my life and my interest in fashion greatly.” ThinkingInterestFashionStyleMasculineRomanticismHepburn Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“And all the women are feminine, so we never get to see masculine presenting women and we never get to frame that as beautiful, which it is, and that's incredibly frustrating, so for every gain or benefit that the internet offers there is a liability.” BeautifulInternetFeminineMasculineFrustratingPresentingLiability Author:Roxane Gay
“The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.” EnergySucceedMasculine Author:Camille Paglia