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To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910), U.S. feminist and author. The First Sex, ch. 22 (1971).

"Masculist" is a coined word meant to correlate grammatically with "feminist."

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