male quotes

And God said, Let us create man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepethuponthe earth. So God createdmaninhis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them,Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:26^8.

There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

-Bible (NewTestament)
Galatians 3:28.

   Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss Of blankets.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'The Great Lover'.

By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies.

- Brigadier General Sherian G(race) Cadoria
  In US News and World Report,13 Feb.

In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

Ye Lilies male! think (as your tea you sip, While theTown small-talk flows from lip to lip; Intrigues half-gathered, conversation-scraps, Kitchen-cabals, and nursery-mishaps), If the vast world may not some scene produce, Some state where your small talents might have use.

- George Crabbe
  The Borough, letter 3,'The Vicar', l.69^74.

Until a woman is free to be as incompetent as the average male then she will never be completely equal.

- Roseanna Cunningham
  By-election campaign speech, May.

  The male quality is the creative gift.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quoted in C C  Abbott (ed) Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

   4. The chosen and male shall go forth unto professions while the chosen and female shall be homely, fecund, docile and slightly artistic.

- A(lison) L(ouise) Kennedy
  Looking for thePossible Dance,'The Scottish Methodfor the Perfection of Children'.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Female of the Species'.

How beastly the bourgeois is Especially the male of the species.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  'How Beastly the Bourgeois Is'.

To me the'female principle' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power Lehmann-Haupt structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

- Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
'Is Gender Necessary?', in  Anderson and McIntyre (eds)  Aurora (1976).

The self-worship of the monarch, or of the feudal superior, is matched by the self-worship of the male.

-John Stuart Mill
  The Subjection of  Women, ch.4.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthyand wealthyand dead.

-James Grover Thurber
  'The Shrike and the Chipmunks', in the NewYorker,18 Feb.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

- Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
Attributed.

'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.

- Naomi Wolf
  The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.