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Quotes About Masculinity

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
~ Orson Scott Card
A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
~ A. A. Milne
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
~ Agnes Smedley
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.
~ Aidan Chambers
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
~ Anton Chekhov
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
~ Bob Dylan
A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
~ Brenda Holloway
Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.
~ Donatella Versace
A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
~ Eleanor Catton
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.
~ Frank Pittman
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
~ George R. R. Martin
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
~ Graydon Carter
Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...
~ Terrence Real
Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.
~ Terrence Real
The paradox for boys is that in order to be worthy of connection they must prove themselves invulnerable, button down warriors in the world's emotional market place.
~ Terrence Real
In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.
~ Terrence Real
Men's willingness to downplay weakness and pain is so great that it has been named as a factor in their shorter life span. The ten years of difference in longevity between men and women turns out to have little to do with genes. Men wait longer to acknowledge that they are sick, take longer to get help, and once they get treatment do not comply with it as well as women do.
~ Terrence Real
The flight from shame into grandiosity lies at the heart of male covert depression.
~ Terrence Real
His father died before his time. "You're a man now," the village people told him. "If being broken-hearted is a man," he replied from his despair, "then, yes, I suppose I'm a man."
~ Terri Guillemets
No man easily admits that he is afraid.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Like most males, he could keep up the aloof act for only so long. Exhausted,
~ Theresa Weir
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
~ Thomas Aquinas