Quotes About Masculinity

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are of what is best in them

Love is for real men.

You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what.…

Still afraid of pain behind my four-day beard.

When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag.

Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances.

How can a man who has killed five men in a battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their family number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.

Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength.

Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?

gentlemen's clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism

Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

because women were also believed to be closer to the raw forces of nature than were males, controlling their power was, for the adult male, part of the larger project of creating human civilization itself.

our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men from displaying high emotion, with the exception of anger. John Wayne doesn't cry. By contrast, Achilles, the epitome of manliness in Homer's Iliad, weeps openly and at length over the loss of his friend Patroclus.

But I spose the women and the children was the closest. There's something about the men just stops them being able.

Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.