Masculinity Quotes

“Who can give a man this, his own name?”

— George MacDonald

There is a lot of toxic masculinity around.

— John Whaite

Women are attracted to demonstrations of masculinity.

— Joel Taylor

You are male by birth, but man by choice.

— Anonymous

His masculinity was only too apparent

— Anonymous

“Jesus Himself was untamed.”

— Mark Batterson

“Great men have great discipline.”

— Habeeb Akande

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

— Bryan Callen

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

— Harvey Mansfield

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Kemp Muhl

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

— Susan Griffin

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

— David Gest

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

— Gloria Ng

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

— Rad Hourani

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

— Carl Froch

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

— Max Frisch

In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above…

— Charles Kingsley

“Gay men have redefined and occasionally undermined conventional masculinity—publicly, for many decades—and often been great allies for women.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.”

— Jack Donovan

“Only real men can pout without losing their masculinity. I have nothing to worry about there. ~What A Boy Wants”

— Nyrae Dawn

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own…

— Gary Ross

“What I mean is that public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn’t do: they were exclusive practices…

— Mary Beard

Men can be effective allies by making space and amplifying the voices of women around them. When each of us is an…

— Meena Harris

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging…

— Andy Dunn

The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we…

— John Eldredge

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which…

— Henry Giroux

Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or…

— Eva Cox

“...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the…

— bell hooks

“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

As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who…

— Frank Pittman

Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational…

— Judy Chu

“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

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

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

“Here in the United States, why do black performances of masculinity, compared to white middle-class performances of masculinity, elicit different responses from…

— A. Breeze Harper

“And when this power [Richard Dehmel's poetic power], coursing through his being, reaches his sexuality, it doesn't find quite the pure human…

— Rainer Maria Rilke