Quotes About Masculinity

So much of the sorry state of our world hangs on the excess of the so-called masculine virtues in our guiding storylines.

Una mujer nunca es sólo una mujer, querido Max. Es también, y sobre todo, los hombres que tuvo, que tiene y que podría tener. Ninguna se explica sin ellos.

Y es que, en cuestión de mujeres, a veces oyes canto de sirena y te sale loba de mar.

En cuestión de afectos, la guerra era el país de los hombres solos.

Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

Will was now all man. And all cowboy.

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

It's so irritating, because male rappers don't have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he's a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

Without sounding sexist, you have to cast a real man opposite Cate Blanchett. You need a guy who's grown up.

I was always made to feel that men were desirable because of their masculinity, and for a boy, being feminine was not something you should be proud of. But, I came to realise it's OK for boys to be feminine, for girls to be masculine and we should all express ourselves however we want.

All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.

I don't think there's anything less attractive than a man over-dyeing things on his face, so I'm going to try, for as long as I can, to age as my male forefathers before me. My father started getting grays when he was in his 30s, as did my grandfather before him, so I don't want to look perpetually young.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

A beard doesn't grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

I guess I just do being a man different than some.