Masculinity Quotes · Page 4

“DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)”

— Frank Chase Jr

“Brrrrrr. Like a lady had handed me a pickle jar that I simply couldn't open, and I wasn't a man anymore.”

— Tommy Walker

Sometimes hiding behind masculinity with your homies can get in the way of having a real dialogue.

— Y'lan Noel

I'm not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard.

— Conchita Wurst

No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.

— Shaun King

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

— Caitlyn Jenner

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

— D. H. Lawrence

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

— Veronica Roth

I think we've got a very two-dimensional view of what masculinity is, of what strength is, what a guy needs to do.

— Ncuti Gatwa

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing…

— Gloria Steinem

You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a…

— Kris Marshall

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

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

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Leslie Feinberg

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

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

— Elle Fanning

“He's a man," Themla said. "I guess that explains it." "Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued…

— Dean Koontz

Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after…

— Steve Almond

I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like…

— Ayshay

If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity…

— Judith Butler

“Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible…

— Neal Stephenson

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this…

— Ed Harris

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.…

— Richard Rohr

“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

... 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

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

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

— Douglas Woolf

“["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

There's always advantages and disadvantages to doing any role. And there's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live…

— Gerard Butler

“Many men are fascinated by the consciously evolving female who makes them feel free inside. But they're too unsure of their own…

— C. JoyBell C

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

— Aaron Eckhart

“Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?”

— Larry McMurtry

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

— Miranda Otto

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

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

— Oliver Stark

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