Busy Quote by Ben Hecht

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type…

— Vivian Mercer

“unlucky lover’s soul; while he is walking around Rome, a woman emerges at every turn of the page; by the regrets, desires, sadnesses, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it,…

— Perfume Genius

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

— Kemp Muhl

“For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life.…

— Dalma Heyn

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he…

— Sophia Loren

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe…

— Naomi Wolf

“They would be displeased to have anybody call them docile, yet in a way they are. They submit themselves to manly behaviour. They submit…

— Alice Munro

I've always been open to exploring the pitfalls of masculinity, because there are a lot of them. Trying to create more discussion around that…

— Harris Dickinson

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's…

— Cato the Younger

Of course, masculinity's changed, but maybe I'm fortunate or privileged to have not been that interested in it.

— Matty Healy

Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so…

— Anonymous