Masculinity Quotes · Page 6

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only…

— Max Frisch

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions…

— Bell Hooks

The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is…

— Julia Serano

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in…

— Deeyah Khan

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to…

— Perfume Genius

“The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know…

— Matt Bondurant

“...the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.”

— Lorna Jowett

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of…

— Paul Theroux

Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind…

— Orlan

Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then…

— Camille Paglia

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

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

— Andrea Dworkin

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love…

— Eknath Easwaran

“How in the world had she gazed upon the man and maintained a straight face while holding him at knifepoint? He’d been…

— Vivienne Savage

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

— Anna Julia Cooper

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of…

— Radclyffe Hall

“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary.…

— James Jones

“When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my…

— Roxane Gay

“Lifting weights has trained me to understand my body not just as a consensus of cells, but as a critical mass—a medium…

— Michael Andor Brodeur

“An integrated male possesses many of the following attributes: •He has a strong sense of self. He likes himself just as he…

— Robert A. Glover

“The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, false teachers, the proud, and bullies. Jesus was…

— Mark Driscoll

“That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then,…

— Bebe Moore Campbell

“He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of…

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Charles M. Blow

Let us stop pathologizing masculinity. Instead, let us appreciate the endless ways by which men and women are similar to one another,…

— Gad Saad

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

“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

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

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

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

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

We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers,…

— Indya Moore

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root,…

— Marilyn French

I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

— J. Lynn

I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think…

— Jonathan Van Ness

To be part of something that shows up toxic masculinity and shows guys it's OK to talk about things and not be…

— Dylan Llewellyn

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or…

— Gerard Butler