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 Copy Share Image
I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the… — James Ransone 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
There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
When 63 million people voted to elect Donald Trump as the president of the United States, it opened up the floodgates for… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is… — Saskia de Brauw Copy Share Image
At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. "Get out" and "I never want to see you again"… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I had great femme mentors, I had good role models of gentle men, I found ways to be a butch that did… — S. Bear Bergman 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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. — Jackson Katz 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
“Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls… — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women. — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else. — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
I am not a Caspar Milquetoast, but most of the time, I'm mild. I can afford to be because I don't have… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege,… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
