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Quotes About Masculinity

Fake tan. Fake smile. Fake nails. Fake hair. Tell me again how you want a real man?
~ Unknown
Straight guys who hate or agaist gay men, usually had a fear or afraid of being gay themself.
~ Unknown
Guys are nicer when they aren't with their friends...
~ Unknown
If society didn't label a man as 'weak' for communicating his feelings and showing his emotions more relationships would last.
~ Unknown
Dear guys,We love when you share your feelings, it doesn't make you any less of a man, it just makes you more adorable.
~ Unknown
As Odysseus said, many boys took each other for lovers. But such things were given up as they grew older, unless it was with slaves or hired boys. Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.
~ Madeline Miller
Aquiles se sonrojó como si le hubieran abofeteado. Una cosa era llevar un vestido, impelido por la necesidad, y otra muy distinta que todos lo supieran. Nuestro pueblo reservaba los más feos apelativos para los hombres que actuaban como mujeres; semejantes insultos habían provocado la pérdida de muchas vidas.
~ Madeline Miller
You think I don't know what you're doing? This is a typical guy stunt. Protect the helpless female, lead the bad guy away and send her scurrying for help." He put a hand on her cheek. "If he caught up to us and something happened to you… I don't know what I'd do." Her lips trembled, though she tried to look angry. "Macho garbage.
~ Maggie Shayne
The truth is our disconnection with Earth translates into a kind of disrespect of the feminine. How far can you go in violating the mother that gave you life? As long as the feminine is diminished the connection between us and the Earth will always be underscored by a big question mark. We have abused the Earth so much that we don't know which direction to go. We must wonder about this increasing masculinity that is translated in terms of repeated violence or love of it.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
Je ne voudrais pas être une femme ici. je ne voudrais pas porter en permanence le poids de ces regards, leurs violences multiples, attisées par la frustration. Pour la première fois, je réalise que l'acte le plus banal d'une femme en Algérie se charge d'emblée de symboles et d'héroïsme tant l'animosité masculine est grande, maladive.
~ Unknown
Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.
~ Malorie Blackman
Boys don't cry, but men do.
~ Malorie Blackman
Boys don't cry but real men do.
~ Malorie Blackman
Jeffrey looked at being an alpha a lot like having a hard-on. If he walked around with a stiff one in his pants all the time, it was uncomfortable for him and just about anyone else he happened upon. But if he had it when needed—well, it could be one hell of a good time.
~ Mandy M. Roth
And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive too, if he's got a mind to? ... - But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.
~ Manuel Puig
And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of behavior can get in a man's way. —When? When it comes to torturing?" —No, when it comes to being finished with the torturers." —But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.
~ Manuel Puig
He was clearly a man who had never seen a bigger gun he didn't like.
~ John Ringo
I'm pretty delicate, Lucas admitted. You know, when I'm not beating someone senseless.
~ John Sandford
Which is why Mom, when she's being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the "vet's office." Because that's where Dad brings people to take their balls.
~ John Scalzi
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don't quite know how.
~ John Steinbeck
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway.
~ John Steinbeck
This was a man, she thought, a man of complete manness. This was the kind of a man that a pure woman would want to have because he wouldn't even want to be part woman. He would be content with his own sex. He wouldn't ever try to understand women and that would be a relief. He would just take what he wanted from them.
~ John Steinbeck
When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it.
~ John Steinbeck