“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.” — Richard W. Wrangham Copy Share Image
“One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We hear a lot about this phrase 'toxic masculinity' but I think the real poison in manhood is silence. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.” — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know… — Matt Bondurant Copy Share Image
Why do you do smoky makeup, why do you try to act pretty on broadcast, etc. For hip-hop where purity is important… — Kim Nam-joon Copy Share Image
“I actually hate when people say that. I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“I had to stop romanticizing the man I might have been and be the man that I was, not by neatly fitting… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
“But you know how it is—it’s always that moment, when a man looks all wounded in his masculinity, one can’t bear it,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery,… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
“Boys who grow up seeing themselves everywhere as powerful and central just by virtue of being boys, often white, are critically impaired… — Soraya Chemaly Copy Share Image
“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Thirty years later he could not come to any other conclusion: women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate,… — Michel Houellebecq 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
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
“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
“You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I instantly recognized his true masculinity in the fact that he had no cavities.” — Yōko Tawada Copy Share Image
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features. — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
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