Quotes About Masculinity

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

Most American men are repressors.

Come on, man, I got a full beard!

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.

Men are never brave, are they?

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.