Masculine Nouns

Famous quotes containing the words masculine and/or nouns:

    In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, introduction (1991)

    Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)