Masculinity Quotes

103 quotes by 89 authors

There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In… — Alec Baldwin
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. — Amos Bronson Alcott
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but… — Tony Campolo
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To… — Erma Bombeck
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. — Thucydides
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. — Vincent D'Onofrio
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity… — Camille Paglia
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. — David Gest
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. — D. H. Lawrence
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. — Kent Nerburn
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable. — H. L. Mencken
I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity. — Hedi Slimane
Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.… — George Gilder
... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be… — Don McPherson
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding… — Eva Cox
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and… — James A. Baldwin
The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and… — Pope John Paul II
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with… — Pope John Paul II

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