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Quotes About Masculinity

the pulsing phallus move down his stomach
~ Nick Cave
a God of ten-year-old boys, a God of playground bullies, a God of rapists, of gangs, of pimps. They worship – despite rhetoric about justice and compassion – a God who sides with the strong against the weak, a God who cheers for privilege and punishes egalitarianism. They worship a God who is a male and who gangs up with other males against women. They worship a thug.
~ Nick Cohen
She looked nothing like that young wife, and nothing like the men with hair on their faces. Her mother's hair, almost, but not her eyes.
~ Nicola Griffith
I imagined Cei as the kind of English rugby player I used to know: mostly kind—if he thinks you're like him; not stupid but lazy and willing to learn only when prodded; and (mostly) just this side of being an asshole but (almost) always very close to the line. Basically, a jerk but with some good points, and useful in a fight. I've spent a lot of time in a lot of pubs with men like Cei.
~ Nicola Griffith
I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
~ Nigel Cole
The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.
~ Unknown
Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.
~ Unknown
There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
~ Norah Vincent
He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.
~ Norah Vincent
They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.
~ Unknown
Comme la plupart des hommes peu intelligents et de muscles développés, il est d'une grande timidité.
~ Octave Mirbeau
What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He had a man's voice already. He had everything but a man's brain.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To proste - my?la? Mieczy? Wojnicz, ?ykaj?c ?zy, które miesza?y si? z krwi? zwierz?cia w jego w?t?ym ciele - by? m??czyzn? to nauczy? si? ignorowa? to, co sprawia k?opot. Oto ca?a tajemnica.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size of the man and the dampness along the seam of my jeans. And this one is producing some serious humidity in my southern hemisphere.
~ Unknown
Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.
~ Osamu Dazai
Men are strange creatures. Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?
~ Osamu Dazai
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
~ Oscar Wilde
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.
~ Otto Weininger
Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde
~ Ouida
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
~ P. J. O'Rourke