Masculine

Famous quotes containing the word masculine:

“... no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love—and its partner, hate. Our father—our “second other”Melaborates on them. Offering us an alternative to the mother-baby relationship . . . presenting a masculine model which can supplement and contrast with the feminine. And providing us with further and perhaps quite different meanings of lovable and loving and being loved.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)

“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan,—as portrayed by Milton.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)