Masculinity Quotes · Page 2

“Jesus Himself was untamed.”

— Mark Batterson

There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.

— T Cooper

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

— V. S. Pritchett

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

— Carl Froch

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

— Rad Hourani

Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.

— Sara Evans

“Being secure in youur masculinity isn't the same as being straight.”

— Becky Albertalli

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

— Jack Donovan

“For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.”

— Gloria Ng

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to…

— Nick Offerman

To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby.…

— Frank Pittman

“In reality, Eduardo hoped the mask would make him appear vulnerable and self conscious, like a wounded animal these stupid women would…

— Raquel Cepeda

Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and…

— Stephen Marche

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy.…

— Taika Waititi

Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage…

— Rose McGowan

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

— Sheila Jeffreys

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go…

— Clarence Clemons

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of…

— J. R. Moehringer

Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay…

— Stephen Marche

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet…

— Rachael Stirling

Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people…

— Wesley Morris

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,…

— James A. Baldwin

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,…

— Camille Paglia

“…a „férfiasság”, úgy vélte, nem az, hogy tönkremegyünk valamiben, amit nem bírunk elviselni – talán férfiasabb az alku, a megoldás, amennyire ez…

— Márai Sándor

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing…

— Javier Camara

“The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but…

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

“The word “repurpose” means to take an object and give it amnesia. It means to make something forget what it’s been trained…

— Rudy Francisco

“Because men's idea of masculinity can rarely be realized at work they have developed a masculine style for their leisure and social…

— John Fiske

“Masculinity is not about being the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, the one who sleeps with the most girls, and the one…

— Lewis Howes

“It seems almost like America wants their boys hurt. That they need that. That guy who writes books about the wolf and…

— Anonymous

“The term “FTM-Butch Border War” just sounds like an alien land of yore. How is it that the gravitational pull of my…

— Mitch Kellaway

Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How…

— Cassandra Clare

“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

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

— David Gest

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

— Kemp Muhl

“Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Masculinity must prove itself, and do so before an audience.”

— Harvey Mansfield

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

— Dan Levy

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

— Meryl Streep

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”

— Patton Oswalt