Quotes About Masculinity

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

I go to bed with men, not boys.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.