Quotes About Masculinity

A woman always considers herself to be pretty even if she is not; a man even being handsome often finds himself to be not. An exception can be in both the genders, but more in men than in women.

Real man sees it a shame to go down on his knees to please or propose own love to a woman

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing— campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

Being out of control is hard for anyone, but it's especially discombobulating for men, who are supposed to know everything and be in control all the time.

If a guy looked at me in a weird way or challenged me for whatever reason, I'd be in his face. I'd give him the shock treatment: I'd rip off my shirt to reveal my tank top underneath and then I'd punch him out. Or sometimes when he saw me he'd just say, "Oh, what the hell. Why don't we just get a beer?

A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful to explore it through these roles.

I fully accepted that I cannot grow facial hair, but it is quite emasculating.

Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

I am conscious now of the little boys I am raising, there are things that are important to me so that they grow up as healthy, responsible and respectful men.

No one wants to be a rake, it's not attractive. Boys like a bum. Even I've got a bit of a bum.

The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.

I like men that shop in Gap and look like proper boys.

To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.

Gay men are still men.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.