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Quotes About Masculinity

Did you deem yourself strong because you were able to twist the heads off civilised folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong.
~ Robert E. Howard
Men looked so tragic when they cried.
~ Robert Galbraith
I've always been clever . . . but that don't 'elp a woman. It's better to be pretty. You 'ave a better life when you're good-looking. Men always went for Irene, not me. She talked shit all night long, but they liked 'er better. I wasn't bad-looking . . . I just didn't 'ave what men liked.
~ Robert Galbraith
He noticed his voice shook a little, and he didn't like it. American males have their standards, after all.
~ Robert James Waller
I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.
~ Robert Jensen
You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole!
~ Robert Kirkman
Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
What it would be to be like one of them. To have power, be seen, be heard, be dudes rather than sluts, be jocks and geeks or bros or nice guys or boys-will-be-boys instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception. To be in control, to seize control, simply because we happened to have a dick.
~ Robin Wasserman
Historiquement, le discours de l'absence est tenu par la Femme : la Femme est sédentaire, l'Homme est chasseur, voyageur; la Femme est fidèle (elle attend), l'homme est coureur (il navigue, il drague). C'est la Femme qui donne forme à l'absence, en élabore la fiction, car elle en a le temps ; (…)
~ Roland Barthes
Testosterone blends easily with your own hormones.… You have no fear of what any woman may think of your bed conduct. You know you are a master. You know they will be thrilled. You can come many times without weariness.… Many women are not capable of pleasure in sex and anything adverse they say or do has no effect whatever upon your pleasure. You have no fear if they conceive. What if they do? You do not care. Pour it into them and let fate decide.
~ Lawrence Wright
You're owed a refund on your manhood.
~ Lee Goldberg
it's important for fathers and sons to go to baseball games. It's the American way of male bonding.
~ Les Roberts
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.
~ Libba Bray
Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
~ Libba Bray
But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
~ Libba Bray
They'd never discussed how to find one's place in the world, never talked of fathers and sons, or what makes someone a man. No. He and Will spoke in newspaper articles about ghosts. They conversed through the careful curation of supernatural knickknacks. And Jericho couldn't help but feel cheated at how little he'd gotten when he'd needed so much more.
~ Libba Bray
Maybe why I want Kayo to beat me up is to prove he's a man and I'm a woman," she mused to Dr. Orne. "I want him to be aggressive.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
If I were any man but myself," he said, "I would turn you over my knee and blister your backside!" Tossing
~ Linda Lael Miller
For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?
~ Lisa Gardner
A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.
~ Daniel Kaluuya
Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.
~ Jackson Katz
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
~ David Mamet
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.
~ Robin Green