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Quotes About Masculinity

If God was male and woman was not male, then whatever God was, woman was not.
~ Rosalind Miles
It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
I have seen something of this world, she said over the trays, and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
~ Rudyard Kipling
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
~ Rudyard Kipling
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
~ Rudyard Kipling
But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.
~ Russell Banks
You are a king, she whispered from behind her veils, but you are also a man. Men burn but women smolder; always we are the stronger, and your subjugation of us is an illusion.
~ S.P. Somtow
We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
~ Archie Fire Lame Deer
We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
~ Jackson Katz
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~ Havelock Ellis
Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman
~ Laozi
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
~ John Eldredge
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
~ Lawana Blackwell
Men. What they do. It's so sick and stupid. You can't believe it.
~ Alice Munro
I wanted to slap Miss Priss. Slap her hard. But I didn't do it. It always been this way with me. I'll call another girl bitch before you blink, but I don't like to hit a woman. I guess it always felt like too much of a man to do it. Strange enough. Strength always seemed to rob the girl out of me, so I always take care to keep it hid.
~ Alice Randall
Shug act more manly than most men, I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. Mr. -- thin all this is stuff men do. But Harpo not like this, I tell him. You not like this. What Shug got is womanly it seem like to me. Specially since she and Sofia the ones got it.
~ Alice Walker
Bom, você sabe, onde tem homem sempre tem problema.
~ Alice Walker
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
~ Allan and Barbara Pease
It's a sad fact but women, women like me, that is, we're starting to get the diseases of men; the coronaries, the strokes, the stomach cancer. But men aren't getting the diseases of women, We turned ourselves into men to succeed in a world designed by them for them, but they never learned to be us, and maybe they never will.
~ Allison Pearson
The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect.
~ Joe Abercrombie
No. Just no. The hairiness, and the lumpiness, and the great big fumbling fingers and … balls. I mean, balls. What's that about? That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just … that is bad design, is what that is
~ Joe Abercrombie
A menudo las mujeres pierden la ternura de sus primeros años del mismo modo que un niño pierde los dientes de leche.
~ Joe Hill