Masculinity Quotes

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.

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

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.

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

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

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

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

His masculinity was only too apparent

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me things and I can relate on two levels simultaneously.

No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.

I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.

We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength.

Great men have great discipline.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

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

Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

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.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

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.

Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

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

If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

Who can give a man this, his own name?

If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.

The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.