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
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
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
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
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
If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis'… — Robin Becker Copy Share Image
“He's a man," Themla said. "I guess that explains it." "Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but… — David Gordon Green 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
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
Raynor slapped her so hard her teeth rattled and eyes stung, but she refused to react except to say saucily, "You must… — Larissa Ione 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
For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“Both spouses are equal, yet different. One of the most beautiful things about a relationship is that the feminine energy can feed… — Renee Wade Copy Share Image
Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow… — Omar Zuniga Copy Share Image
Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, whatever. They're great pop stars, but they - on purpose - don't say anything. They purposefully don't stand… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah 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
I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet… — Rachael Stirling 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
“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
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
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
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
![“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with…” quote by Elle Fanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/elle-fanning-7912_cinema_i-always-wanted-to-be-a-part-of-nicolas_1917434.jpg)
