Swimming pool Quote by Annemarie Mol

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

— Kemp Muhl

We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful…

— Josh O'Connor

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into…

— Camille Paglia

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

— Charles M. Blow

“We need a new cultural definition of masculinity.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

“Males must prove their masculinity constantly, throughout their lives, from cradle to grave, in an endless series of rites and performances. And a woman’s…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

— Gloria Steinem

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our…

— Judith Butler

Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition…

— Stephen Marche

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people…

— Jean Baker Miller

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender…

— Judith Butler