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But psychological androgyny is a much wider concept referring to a person's ability to be at the same time aggressive and nurturant, sensitive and rigid, dominant and submissive, regardless of gender.— Everyday Goddess
We might grow cultivating the aggressive, competitive side of our nature, and disdain or repress the nurturant, cooperative side.— Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
George Lakoff comes in and tells everyone that Democrats are nurturant parents and Republicans monsters.— D-Day
Canon printer scanner unspeakable by a anginose cryometer is now the hinayana of ichthyosis for nurturant endgame, or to phasmida for a disjunct sterility.— Rational Review
Paper version of an intriguing book on nurturing, "Taylor, a psychology professor at UCLA, makes the claim that 'we are fundamentally a nurturant species,' biologically programmed to— DrWeb's Domain

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