I instantly recognized his true masculinity in the fact…

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

— Vincent D'Onofrio

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true…

— Frank Pittman

“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized…

— Paulo Coelho

“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks and good…

— W.H. Auden

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men…

— Anita Phillips

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

— K. D. Lang

... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's, a littlemusic…

— Anna Julia Cooper

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

— Kathleen Hanna

In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless…

— Frank Pittman

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's…

— Nate Parker

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight…

— Alan Cumming

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

— Bo Burnham

“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”

— Jack Donovan

I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It…

— Neil Druckmann