Masculinity Quotes · Page 5

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

— Miranda Otto

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

— Veronica Roth

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

— Aaron Eckhart

I think if we took away that toxic masculinity then the world would be a much better place.

— Oliver Stark

A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

— Anonymous

Society teaches boys not to cry or show their feelings, then act surprised when some men act heartless.

— Anonymous

“And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.”

— M. Ageyev

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing…

— Kathleen Hanna

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

— Leslie Feinberg

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it…

— Donald Glover

I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

— Bo Burnham

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women…

— K. D. Lang

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.

— Jonathan Van Ness

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than…

— Leora Tanenbaum

I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but…

— David Gordon Green

Raynor slapped her so hard her teeth rattled and eyes stung, but she refused to react except to say saucily, "You must…

— Larissa Ione

I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has…

— Elle Fanning

“I had to stop romanticizing the man I might have been and be the man that I was, not by neatly fitting…

— Charles M. Blow

My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness…

— Aisling Bea

“But you know how it is—it’s always that moment, when a man looks all wounded in his masculinity, one can’t bear it,…

— Doris Lessing

“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery,…

— bell hooks

... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise…

— Don McPherson

“Such invocations of fin-de-siècle manliness are so ubiquitous in the correspondence and memoranda of these years that it is difficult to localize…

— Christopher Munro Clark

“Give a man love and he will trade his crown for a kiss. Break a man's heart and he will raise empires…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and…

— Frank Pittman

“["Manning Up"'s] essays definitely nuance the idea of transitioning into a “shared manhood” (much like feminists of color have complicated the idea…

— Mitch Kellaway

“ ... family men, Claude." "Then why aren't they home with their families?" "You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes…

— Douglas Woolf

“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly…

— Christopher Hitchens

What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s…

— Stephen Marche

I'm definitely more attracted to men and masculinity - not just cis men but trans guys, too.

— Courtney Act

“He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.”

— Eloisa James

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

“Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.”

— Philip Pullman

“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“What’s the matter with manhood? There’s something about how masculinity is imagined, about what’s praised and encouraged, about the way violence is…

— Rebecca Solnit

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

— Charles M. Blow

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

— Gloria Steinem