“One of the biggest things that hold men back from being the fathers, husbands, and leaders they are meant to be is… — Josh Hatcher 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
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
So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man.… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
“So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise… — Don McPherson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they… — Jonathan Ames 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
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to… — Stephen Marche 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
