A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
Brenda Holloway

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Anne Seward

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

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
June Singer

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
Hedy Lamarr

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Karl Kraus

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Hermione Gingold

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
Clifford Geertz

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

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

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

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
Scott Bakula

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding