#masculine

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

— Susan Sontag

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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. ↗

— Vera Miles

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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

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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

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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. ↗

— Ken Follett

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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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