Quote by VD

“Pure masculine virility can be found in the action of the warrior and in the detachment of the ascetic.”

— VD

“Masculine virility is through the action of the warrior or the detachment of the aesthetic.”

— VD

“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“All human beings, independent of a dominant gender orientation, embody qualities of the masculine and feminine, and the whole of humanity has suffered from…

— Danielle Dulsky

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy…

— John Eldredge

“We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation into manhood…

— Michael Gurian

“Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel…

— Laura Kipnis

“A virtuous man may have a choleric or a sanguine constitution, be gay or grave, unreproved, be firm till he is almost over-bearing, or…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness”

— Oscar Wilde

“His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous,…

— Joseph Heller

“Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.”

— Bryant McGill