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«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, curiosity, cursed, cursed with, desire to know, female, insatiable, masculine, objectionable
«In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.»
«If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.»
Author: Dr. June Singer
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
androgyne, chi, feminine, masculine, performed, ritual, ritual dance, Tai
«Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.»
Author: Hermione Gingold
(Actress)
| About:
Fighting,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
essentially, masculine
«If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.»
«Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
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Debate
| Keywords:
debate, feminine, masculine
«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.»
«Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
epic, epics, epigram, feminine, masculine
«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»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
defect, defective, defectives, likeness, masculine, misbegotten, production, regards, tends, tends to
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
distrust, favorable, feminine, generalization, generalizations, masculine, paucity, unfavorable
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