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Quotes About Masculinity

I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.
~ Ezra Furman
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
~ Katherine Dunn
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
~ Charles Bronson
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
~ Bruce Willis
Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, now it is a problem to be overcome.
~ Garrison Keillor
Mature masculinity expresses itself not in the demand to be served, but in the strength to serve and to sacrifice for the good of woman.
~ Gary Ricucci
Mature masculinity does not have to initiate every action, but feels the responsibility to provide a general pattern of initiative.
~ Gary Ricucci
Almost all had ill-grown mustaches and sported pinkish sun-bleached sandals meant for some nonexistent third gender, along with buzz haircuts that spoke of either nationalism or retardation.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I don't think it would be apprpriate for a man to call himself a feminist.
~ Gary Snyder
The idea is that a beard makes it easy to cut a man's throat. You grab it and jerk his head up." "I see," Silk said. Mentally, he cancelled the beard he had only just resolved to grow.
~ Gene Wolfe
I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker.
~ George Carlin
I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.
~ George Eliot
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
~ George Eliot
The son knows about himself as a masculine figure through the eyes of the mother, not the eyes of the father.
~ George Kohlrieser
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
~ Jerry Rubin
I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
~ Alber Elbaz
Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
I think for men and women, there's a different dynamic when it comes to love. Because I feel like a man who falls in love with a woman falls harder than a woman falling for a man. We're not emotionally as accepting as women are.
~ Goldlink
I love female company. I love men, but women are different.
~ Kym Whitley
Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.
~ Jeff Bridges
If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.
~ Julia Michaels
We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
~ Simon Le Bon
We want a macho high-earner - with the sensitivity of Gok Wan. We want a man with Brad Pitt's six-pack - but one who's prepared to overlook our own muffin top. No wonder most men don't know if they're coming or going.
~ Jojo Moyes
Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.
~ Kajol