Masculine Singular

Famous quotes containing the words masculine and/or singular:

    The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.
    Jean Baker Miller (20th century)

    though the fall cold

    surrounds our warm bed, and though
    by day we are singular and often lonely.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)