Quotes About Masculinity

finally, in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

And every fall a great number of men set out to prove that without talent, training, knowledge, or practice they are dead shots with rifle or shotgun. The results are horrid.

Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren't the maze women's were, for the pee to find its way through.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

I love being a girl because we can act like guys without looking homo.

Ha comprendido que la mujer, que una sola mujer es más fuerte que todos los hombres juntos, y de ahí que los hombres necesiten apretarse entre ellos como niños débiles y asustadizos, necesiten fanfarronear y bravuconear y hablen del amor como de una matufia urdida por ellos para hacer caer a las mujeres en la celada del sexo. No hay que creerles, no hay que preocuparse. Llegado el caso, una mujer puede con una sola mirada desbaratar toda esa falsa tramoya de los hombres.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Real men, she decided then and there, wore well-worn flannel, and they never tucked it into their jeans.

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

You know what they say about men with big feet...big socks.

It's a guy thing really means There's no rational thought pattern connected with it and you can't make it logical.

Real men don't wear pink, they eat it.