Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I was always made to feel that men were desirable because of their masculinity, and for a boy, being feminine was not… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“When a man and woman have sexual relations, who gets the most out of the deal? The man, or the woman? Since… — Tariq Nasheed Copy Share Image
“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Masculinity in the classical sense is not important to me, it's always about being the strongest. But the topic of 'New Masculinity'… — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
A Man will try to be stoic, strong and keep a stiff upper-lip; Repressing his emotions for not a peep of the… — Sophie Parkin Copy Share Image
The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I would say that's at the center of masculinity in the 21st century: How do you become comfortable enough that you can… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“It’s everywhere: a system of thought and a set of invented and discriminatory practices in our laws, culture and economy that feminists… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
“The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and… — Rosalind Coward Copy Share Image
Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
In order to live as we were designed to live, we must be in pursuit not simply of manhood but of godly… — Bob Lepine Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age… Some men… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“I guess they feel secure enough in their masculinity that they that they don't care. I actually hate when people say that.… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness.… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself… — Lil B Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was… — Le1f Copy Share Image
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the… — Penny Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Kasta looked from one of them to the other, the two of them shaking hands, understanding each other's concern. She didn't see… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity.… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
