Best 65 quotes in «masculine quotes» category

You ask about the effects of my work on others. If I may wax ironical, that is a masculine questions. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand - in the same sense that I have understood - that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.

He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He was sexual. He attracted.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

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.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

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

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

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

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

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

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

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

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

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.

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

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

A masculine man wears his attitude. He is as much comfortable wearing three piece suits as he is in wearing ripped torn jeans. He does not chase love, women, or power. He gets them anyhow. He would never ever give up his masculinity for anyone or anything in his life. He lives by his ideals that are tattooed to his soul. He does not believe in leading a comfortable life with luxuries. Rather he works hard to achieve his goals in life. He lives raw. He wanders often. And his life story becomes a testament to his masculinity!

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

A man's level of "toughness" (as assessed by other men), will determine whether or not his girlfriend will get hit on by other guys right in front of him in public places. If you're deemed a "p*#%y" by other guys and they want your girlfriend, even in your company she'll be considered "fair game".

And this is the great challenge of our time, the evolutionary imperative for the masculine to see through and overcome its hubris and one-sidedness, to own its own unconscious shadow, to choose to enter into a fundamentally new relationship of mutuality with the feminine in all its forms.

BEATRICE. Princes and Counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O! that I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look strong and be tough, women to look pretty and soft. Men to be masculine, women to be feminine. Men get judged for being "too feminine", women get criticized for being "too masculine". Gender policing affects us all.

Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot physically look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.

Centuries of social conditioning has created a generational fear among women of being perceived as masculine.This is where all the shaming and labels come into play, which perpetuate the oppression of girls and women. As a society we shame girls with deep voices or masculine features and we shame boys with soft voices or effeminate gestures. Girls get called "too manly" and boys get called "too girly". The only solution I can think of is to be unashamedly "you". If that means challenging stereotypes and gender norms, go right ahead!

Even in the dim light emanating from the few illuminated windows of the mansions, Charlotte could see that this man's body was athletic and pleasing to the feminine eye. This was no young, besotted whelp declaring his undying love. This was a man. A clearly stubborn one, but a man just the same. Long and lean muscled, a trim waist and narrow hips, and strong legs encased in black breeches that he must have inched his way into. Inexpressibles. Charlotte almost sighed.

Do you want me to lick you again?

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.

First, break free; then break through. Dragons love to fly at the expanding edge of your world.

Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. Don't let society make you believe you have to prove your masculinity to anyone because you don't. You are you and you are worthy, full stop.

-flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic symbol for masculine virility.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

For the deepest passion of the Western mind has been to reunite with the ground of its own being. The driving impulse of the West’s masculine consciousness has been its dialectical quest not only to realize itself, to forge its own autonomy, but also, finally, to come to terms with the great feminine principle in life, and thus to recover its connection to the whole: to differentiate itself from but then rediscover and reunite with the feminine, with the mystery of life, of nature, of soul.