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Quotes About Masculinity

Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
~ Warren Farrell
You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
I believe femininity is at least as close to divinity as masculinity. The masculine bias in this matter is one of the worst forms of anthropomorphism. In principle women can do everything men can; the converse statement is less true. Also, motherhood is a more intimate relation than fatherhood. Our relation to deity is more intimate still. "Closer [God is] than breathing and nearer than hands and feet.
~ Charles Hartshorne
If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.
~ Charles Martin
The male ego is a curious thing. It's about the size of a small continent but it's extremely brittle.
~ Charles Stross
Men were men. They all wanted beauty. Such shallow, fickle, heartless creatures.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
Those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nowhere else in the whole range of life on earth, is this degradation found--the female capering and prancing before the male. It is absolutely and essentially his function, not hers.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process. But Terry came to no such conclusion.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The only thing they can think of about a man is Fatherhood!" said Terry in high scorn. "Fatherhood! As if a man was always wanting to be a father!
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
O que me levou à convicção de que os "charmes femininos" que apreciamos não são nada femininos, mas apenas reflexos da masculinidade — desenvolvidos para nos agradar porque elas precisam nos agradar —, nem um pouco essenciais ao desempenho.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
That was emasculating." "Says the guy wearing the collar.
~ Chelsea Cain
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
~ Cher
I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.
~ Cherie Priest
He was once again wearing only a pair of trousers, chest bared, and sight was extremely arousing. All that naked male flesh, all that dark, swirled hair, was unsettling and thrilling. She longed to run her fingers through the matted pile, to rub her nose against it, while she traced over sinew and bone.
~ Cheryl Holt
Women are the ones with the cojones," said Paco as he made a bowl of guacamole. "We guys like to think we're the ones, but we're wrong.
~ Cheryl Strayed
How can god give girls so much power? How can they turn productive, busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness.
~ Chetan Bhagat
And sometimes in life, it is about taking the better option even if it doesn't appear to be macho.
~ Chetan Bhagat
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
~ H. L. Mencken
Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!
~ Hal Duncan
He was all iron outside, but all father within.
~ Hall Caine
Se stie insa ca sursa tuturor greutatilor moderne este ceea ce numesc eu inertia masculina. Problemele in casnicie au aparut numai dupa ce barbatii nu au mai plecat pe mare si au inceput in schimb sa bocaneasca pe langa casa in weekenduri. Barbatii au inteles si ei in sfarsit chestia asta si incearca sa umple tot acest timp liber care le ramane cu treburi urgente imaginare.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
~ Harold Brodkey