Masculine Quotes

• Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Power
  • Help
  • Masculine

• To the masculine mind there appears to be something strangely exhilarating in the thought of a woman being abruptly torn from her home without sufficient time to put her wardrobe in order, and to all the men responsible for this voyage the most delightful feature apparently of the whole affair was the fact that I should be forced to get ready in five hours for a seventy-five days' voyage around the world.

  

  Elizabeth Bisland
  • Home
  • Forced
  • Voyage

• I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Feminine
  • Idea of Paradox
  • Authentic fabrics

• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  

  Eva Burrows
  • Aggressive
  • Troubles
  • Feminine

• The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Natural
  • Admire
  • Masculine

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

  

  Cecily Brown
  • Ownership
  • Masculine
  • Abstraction

• A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Quality
  • Feels

• That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn’t. I wasn’t big or masculine enough. In my mind, anyway. But Ben could get all agape on your ass, and you’d just sit there like, huh. Agape. Interesting.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Interesting
  • Sit
  • Masculine

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