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Quotes About Masculinity

As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.
~ Tom Perrotta
The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life. Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.
~ Tom Robbins
If he's like a lot of men, he'd rather be a murderer than a fool.
~ Tom Robbins
What you want to be when you grow up?" Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. "A man," he said and left.
~ Toni Morrison
Men who knew their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without gunshot fox would laugh at them.
~ Toni Morrison
a man is defined biblically as "a male who has learned to submit his maleness to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
~ Tony Evans
M. Masculinity, Manhood. What makes a man a Man? As a woman at the dawn of mid-life, I can confess to having learned, for sure, that I have more testosterone in my right foot then most men have surging around their entire bodies. You don't have to be born with balls to have balls. There is spunk and there is mental spunk, and it's the latter that gets me up in the mornings, that makes me change my life, that moves the world around me.
~ Tracey Emin
I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
~ Kesha
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.
~ Kevin Smith
You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.
~ Kiera Cass
Miss Grant, I don't know where you got the idea that men don't have deep feelings, but that's wrong. Oh, we might be better at hiding them. But we get sad and scared and doubtful, the same as anybody else. I can tell you I cried lots of sowing tears when my uncle died after I came to Spiveyville.~Mack Cleveland
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
~ Kingsley Amis
a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.
~ Kinley MacGregor
Kill him? (Jake) Confront him. (Morgan) Since when do you take the sissy way out? (Jake) Excuse me? (Morgan) Face it, Drake, that good English breeding of yours is showing itself. Talking ain't a man's way of doing things. You know that. You got a problem, you cut its heart out and then it's not a problem anymore. (Jake)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Clumsy? Why, I've had more women than you, you whelp. Well. Maybe not more than you, but certainly more than Ewan. (Lochlan) That's not saying much. My left boot has had more women than Ewan. (Braden)
~ Kinley MacGregor
To attract boyfriends, American girls pretend they are women, while Japanese women pretend they are girls.
~ Kittredge Cherry
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.
~ Krista Allen
OH!" KATE GRUNTED as she sat down behind her desk. "My side is killing me. I'm ovulating, I think. That sucker must be huge." "Must we discuss?" Jon asked. "Man up, weenie boy," Kate said. "You man up, Venus Williams," Jon replied. "I'm a gay home-ec teacher. I never have to man up. I never will man up. As God is my witness, I'll never man up again.
~ Kristan Higgins
He had all the rough and sultry appeal of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Clive Owen in Sin City. Russell Crowe in everything he did.
~ Kristan Higgins
Bryce was a typical man—he didn't know what he needed; he just knew what he liked.
~ Kristan Higgins
He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
~ Kristin Hannah
A male was transformed into a man by the willful expenditure of energy. Above all, a man willed himself to be expendable. Like the sun, a man fed the fire of his honor on his own substance. The magnus animus, the animus virilis, squandered itself in contempt of its own dear life.
~ Carlin A. Barton
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
~ Carlos Santana
Porque entonces era lo suficientemente atontada para no darme cuenta que aquél era uno de los infinitos hombres que nacen sólo para sementales y junto a una mujer no entienden otra actitud que ésta. Su cerebro y su corazón no llegan a más.
~ Carmen Laforet