Quotes About Masculinity

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.

she gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that offends his pride and humiliates his will. While inclining before him and submitting flesh to spirit, she remains on the carnal borders of the spirit; and she contests the sharpness of hard masculine architecture by softening the angles; she introduces free luxury and unforeseen grace.

No hay nada menos natural que vestirse de mujer; sin duda las ropas masculinas son también artificiales, pero más cómodas y sencillas, están pensadas para favorecer la acción y no para entorpecerla.

C'est pour sauvegarder ce mystère que les hommes ont supplié longtemps les femmes de ne pas abandoner les robes longues (...) tout ce qui accentue en l'Autre la différence le rend plus désirable, puisque c'est l'Autre en tant que tel que l'homme veut s'approprier.

Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.

La femme, comme l'homme, est son corps: mais son corps est autre chose qu'elle.

Na boca do homem o epíteto «fêmea» soa como um insulto; no entanto, ele não se envergonha da sua animalidade, sente-se, ao contrário, orgulhoso se dizem dele: «É um macho!» O termo «fêmea» é pejorativo, não porque enraíza a mulher na Natureza, mas porque a confina ao seu sexo.

Male beauty is a sign of transcendence, that of woman has the passivity of immanence

No one is more arrogant, more aggressive or more disdainful towards women, than a man who is fearful for his masculinity.

She [the female] appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex - absolute sex, no less.

Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions

She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.

She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the ming of the most resolute of men.

I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you.

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

Quinby thinks George W. Bush is evil, to some degree, because he has a penis.

And now, it seems, they are all here: the handsome masculine ones desired alike by men and women; the gushing swishes, hands aflutter like wings; the few stray women secure among the men who will idolize them but not love them; and as in any group of homosexuals and those lured for whatever reason to them, there is here a mood of superficial good humor, of euphoria bordering on hysteria. So

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

A medida que envejecían, las mujeres parecían volverse cada vez más masculinas, mientas que el señor Osmond, en cambio, se parecía cada día más a una vieja