“It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry “masculine” when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as “feminine.””
A Grief Observed (1961)
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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Quote of Kandinsky, in the introduction of an exhibition-catalog 'Neue Künstlervereinigung', 1913, Munich; as cited by , in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 119-120
1910 - 1915

Source: "Woman in Europe" (1927), P. 243

Interview with Bruce Barton, "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again," The American Magazine, April 1921