God has many attributes for us to pattern ourselves after, but God is first of all Spirit (John 4:24) which means God is neither masculine nor feminine.  However, there’s some awkwardness in language since neither Hebrew nor Greek have specific pronouns for he, she or it—they each have one word for all three.  We tend to want to say that this characteristic of God is masculine and that one is feminine (as in nurturing like a mother) but we forget that God had the characteristics before there were humans– male or female.  Since we’re made in God’s image, we get these characteristics from him—not he from us!  And how can we really subdivide them anyway?  God is love.  There’s no way that only women can give love!  Or peace. Or patience.  Of course not, no more than only men are to be courageous.