I made friends easily. People thought I was competent. But the more I leaned into masculinity, the more opaque I became to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Being okay with being gay, or different, means nothing until you love all of your gayness and different-ness. Really, the “manliest” move… — Seth King Copy Share Image
When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“Males must prove their masculinity constantly, throughout their lives, from cradle to grave, in an endless series of rites and performances. And… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“With President Trump, however, the masculine archetype seems to have regressed. Trump is less the strict father than the petulant child: a… — Amanda Hess Copy Share Image
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy’s journey to manhood:… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“...the new man cannot exist without the old monster masculinity. All the new men are aware of how masculinity is constructed and… — Lorna Jowett Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it… — Lauren Berlant Copy Share Image
In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant,… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise,… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Society at large can't make up its mind about men. Having spent the last thirty years redefining masculinity into something more sensitive,… — John Eldgedge Copy Share Image
All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
“Hot damn, Diego Santero looked fine soaking wet. Everything about him radiated potent masculinity, from the slick, dark hair that drew emphasis… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“We don’t say “Hey, guys, you don’t show your masculinity by publicly dominating and embarrassing a woman.” We tell women “Dress in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy:… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels… — Anita Phillips Copy Share Image
“There was something aggressively masculine about Toloose . . . perhaps it was the look in his eye. Or the way he… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
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