#masculine

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#comes #compact #dark #expresses #frame

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

#man #masculine #only #shortage #societies

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

#because #bit #come #feel #felt

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

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#feminine #french #life #like #masculine

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#brothers #environment #friends #grew #guys

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #between #disturbance #done #energy

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

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

— June Singer

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being

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

— Scott Bakula

#express #feminine #find #ideally #masculine