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Quotes About Masculinity

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.
~ Ilona Andrews
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
~ Iris Murdoch
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
~ Jamie Bell
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
~ Janet Flanner
I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.
~ Jimmy Dean
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
~ John Updike
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
~ Katee Sackhoff
I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.
~ Kemp Muhl
You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The stronger women get, the more men love football.
~ Mariah Nelson
Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.
~ Mary Karr
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
~ Marya Mannes
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
~ Meryl Streep
Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
~ Michael Ian Black
Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.
~ Michael Rosenbaum
Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.
~ Miranda July
Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.
~ Naomi Wolf
I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
~ Norman Mailer
Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.
~ Peter Buffett
I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
~ Rachel Roy
There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of it, faster than any man will. If you really want to know... It's just the way it is.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.
~ Tara Brown