Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed."
Masculine And Feminine quotes
Masculine And Feminine
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Margaret Fuller
Transcendentalist, Writer
"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
Transcendentalist, Writer
"There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"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."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"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."
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"The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos."
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"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."
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"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
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"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."
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"I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships."
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"Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine."
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