Masculinity Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Masculinity

Masculinity Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Masculinity quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. — Aaron Eckhart

Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to. — Celeste Bradley

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

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. — Bell Hooks

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

Sing in me, o Muse, of that small minority of men who are secure enough in their masculinity to use the feminine third-person singular! — Mary Norris

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

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it. — Margaret Atwood

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

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable. — H.L. Mencken

Chestnuts fall from the tree; symbol of masculinity and femininity - I scratched a purple pentagram in the tree. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity. — RuPaul

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

You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs. — Jay Leno

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

They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking. — Alana Massey

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them. — Tom Of Finland

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations — Rad Hourani

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

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. — Vin Diesel

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

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep

The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. — William Gibson

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

Without strength, masculinity becomes something else - a different concept. — Jack Donovan

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft. — Richard Rohr

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

[Asiaticus responds] Ask your sons, Suillius. They will testify to my masculinity. — Tacitus

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'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity. — Hedi Slimane

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove. — Gloria Steinem

I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being. — Robert Jensen

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

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way. — Martin Amis

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it. — Robert Jensen

I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists — Simon Tam

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

Genesis tells us that from the very beginning, masculinity, femininity, and sex are created by God and bound to Creation. — Rod Dreher

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