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Quotes About Masculinity

The Fry's chain completely taps into MSE: Male Shopping Energy. This is to say that most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day—if not the week—and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.
~ Douglas Coupland
Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog',a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse
~ Alan Carr
For yes, being a woman, even one with a penis and for the purposes of drama, really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics. And I think that has happened so that men feel they can ogle them and protect them in equal measure.
~ Alan Cumming
For yes, being a woman, even one with a penis and for the purposes of drama, really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics. And I think that has happened so that men feel they can ogle them and protect them in equal measure. Just
~ Alan Cumming
My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.
~ Ryan Lochte
I wasn't good-looking like the heroes. But I had a good physique having been a goalkeeper. I was like a panther.
~ Ranjeet
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
~ Roseanne Barr
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
~ Tom Hiddleston
I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.
~ Cory Booker
Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch.
~ Mary Pilon
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
~ Judith Butler
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.
~ Kevin Costner
My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.
~ Cornelia Parker
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.
~ Jason Isbell
I am sending a memo to every man in the world: just because you make an effort with your wardrobe doesn't make you a wuss.
~ Tan France
If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.
~ Peter Zumthor
I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.
~ Jason Momoa
The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.
~ Naomi Alderman
I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.
~ Rachel Ward
A gorgeous, make-your-ovaries-shiver man.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.
~ Randy Wayne White
Incredible the mass labor of the fat ugly masturbators of the 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION! Wow have I seen gallons and gallons of sperm spilled, wasted, in the nights of North Carolina, and tons and tons of sheets stained, yellowed by the juice of these guys of the 82nd! Kilos and kilos! Piles and piles! Truckloads and truckloads of sheets full of vicious and doubtful traces and circles.
~ Raymond Federman
She could knock a man's teeth through his balls with those arms though.
~ Rebecca Barry
I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.
~ Scott Speedman