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“The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be”
― Elbert Hubbard

“She’d never seen a boy with hands like that, with long, delicate fingers, beautiful but still masculine. His fingernails were long too, almost crystalline, tapered to points. They were the kind of hands you’d expect to see under lace cuffs, like Mozart or something.”
― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

“For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.”
― Gloria Ng, Well Water Woman

“The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

“I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.”
― Robert Jensen

“Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.”
― Richard D. Phillips, The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

“Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed a masculine man’s heart. And, the masculine energy can totally light up the feminine energy.”
― Renee Wade

“When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but only feminine avenues... Yet there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts... Many men have tried the drug... so many, but none has succeeded."

"They tried and failed, all of them?"

"They tried and died.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is
crucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championing
justice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If the
shadow is not recognized and dealt with, it will dominate an individual or . . . community, resulting in untold suffering.”
― Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

“There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“Incidentally, one has to be very careful with that ‘Bridegroomâ€� imagery. It is so very apt to land one in Male and Female Principles, Eleusis, and the womb of the Great Mother. And that sort of thing doesn’t make much appeal to well-balanced women, who look on it as just another example of men’s hopeless romanticism about sex, and who are apt either to burst out laughing or sniff a faint smell of drains.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“-flashed Langdon the thumbs-up
sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic
symbol for masculine virility.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“The feminine seeks connection through union, likewise the masculine seeks freedom through disengagement.”
― Nityananda Das

“Centuries of social conditioning has created a generational fear among women of being perceived as masculine.This is where all the shaming and labels come into play, which perpetuate the oppression of girls and women. As a society we shame girls with deep voices or masculine features and we shame boys with soft voices or effeminate gestures. Girls get called "too manly" and boys get called "too girly". The only solution I can think of is to be unashamedly "you". If that means challenging stereotypes and gender norms, go right ahead!”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women