Masculinity Quotes

• We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wealth, Feminine, Solve

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• Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

  Norman Mailer

  Sports, Winning, Men

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Gay, Doors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  Doris Day

  Funny Love, Live Life, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Character

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• If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

  David Gest

  Men, Worry, Ifs

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• First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspiration, Men, Discovery

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Elusive, Manliness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

  John Piper

  Heart, Responsibility, Men

  John Piper (1990). “What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible”

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• The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Distinction, Threat

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Two, Conformity

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• 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 is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Sensitivity, Elusive

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Stupidity

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.8, 谷月社

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• To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Skins, Definitions, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Sensitivity, Elusive, Manhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychological, Sexuality, Found

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Pride, Men, Identity

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• You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

  Stephen Marche

  Fall, Men, Reality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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• 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 women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

  Erma Bombeck

  Spring, Real, Coffee

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• I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Judging, My Own

  "Dennis Rodman Wears Drag For Legends Of Basketball Tour". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Men, Practice

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Order, Law

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Johann Christoph Hampe (1977). “Prayers from prison: prayers and poems”, Not Avail

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