Quotes About Masculinity

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by a media that seems to uphold more bizarrely rigid standards of conformity than those held by any citizen.

I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

I am nearly 5ft 7in, which is short for a guy. I have the upper body of a taller man, but my legs are only 28.5in.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Bomber jackets, for me, are the new blazers. They're something I can wear with suit pants or slacks - or I can go really urban with it. I think, as men, we don't have the little black dress that women do to go from day to nighttime, but the bomber can be the LBD for men.

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men.

A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.

Macho does not prove mucho.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

I just didn't fit the stereotypes of gay men. I was an ESPN addict as far back as elementary school. I'd also had early crushes on girls.

Usually, like, anyone that would adopt, like, 'masc,' period, to describe them - it's a very phony, stereotypical masculinity.

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.

Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss.