At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“ ... family men, Claude." "Then why aren't they home with their families?" "You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It takes… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of… — Radclyffe Hall 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
“So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood… — Camille Paglia 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
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity. — Jess Row 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
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 this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.” — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“How does ANY male-identified person know he is a man? And does my answer really diverge greatly from how many men, trans… — Mitch Kellaway 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
“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary.… — James Jones Copy Share Image
We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
