Masculinity Quotes
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Masculinity Quotes & Sayings
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
— Patton Oswalt
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
— Catherine Opie
Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom."Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time — Cassandra Clare
I decided to throw out everything I thought I knew about following Christ, being a woman, being a godly wife, masculinity, and marriage.
— April Cassidy
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
— Gloria Steinem
Brrrrrr. Like a lady had handed me a pickle jar that I simply couldn't open, and I wasn't a man anymore.
— Tommy Walker
I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.
— Carl Froch
We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.
— Bryant McGill
The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.
— Jack Donovan
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
— Leslie Feinberg
To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!
— Michelle Tea
Women destroy me. I allow them to.
— Raquel Cepeda
Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia.
— Euny Hong
I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.
— Michel Tremblay
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
— Stella Young
DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
— Frank Chase Jr
He is obviously proud of his shock of curly gray hair; it is the symbol of his aging masculinity. This is not a hairstyle; it is a world view.
— Pierre Lemaitre
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
— Saskia De Brauw
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
— Bo Burnham
What a man leaves behind is what a man is.
— Toni Morrison
There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.
— T. Cooper
Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men.
— Rebecca Scherm
Chestnuts fall from the tree; symbol of masculinity and femininity - I scratched a purple pentagram in the tree.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
— Norman Mailer
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.
— Douglas Wilson
He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.
— Eloisa James
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.
— Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Great men have great discipline.
— Habeeb Akande
My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.
— Tom Of Finland
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
— Patricia Hill Collins
No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
— Veronica Roth
Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.
— Katherine Reay
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
— Jaron Lanier
My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.
— Robin Green
I've always had a bit of a feminine aura, but I don't mind. Russell Brand has one, too.
— John Duover
I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.
— Brian D'Ambrosio
In my world, a man who darns his own socks is not a man.
— Andre Aciman
The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.
— Benita Roth
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
— Habeeb Akande
There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
— Norah Vincent
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn't allow for women, and it's also racist - it doesn't allow for other cultures.
— Larry McMurtry
I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.
— Marie Helvin
Only real men can pout without losing their masculinity. I have nothing to worry about there. ~What A Boy Wants
— Nyrae Dawn
I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.
— Carlos Andres Gomez
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.
— Marjane Satrapi
Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap.
— Robert Jensen
Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.
— Nicholas Roe
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
— Kathe Kollwitz
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
— Otto Weininger
I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in you masculinity isn't the same as being straight.
— Becky Albertalli
Jesus Himself was untamed.
— Mark Batterson
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
— Scott Thompson
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
— Gloria Steinem
And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.
— M. Ageyev
I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.
— Bryan Callen
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
— Jackson Katz
Riley: give me a romantic comedy any day.rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you?
riley: takes one to know one, bro. — Keri Arthur
Emotionally shut-down black males are often represented as epitomizing desirable masculinity.
— Bell Hooks
Who can give a man this, his own name?
— George MacDonald
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs, said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.
— Emily Matchar
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
— Larry McMurtry
Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.
— Sam Wazan
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
— Otto Weininger
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
— Sheila Jeffreys
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
— Norman Mailer
No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.
— Jack Donovan
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
— David Sedaris
Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference. — Linda Howard
You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
— Gillian Flynn
Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience.
— Harvey Mansfield