Masculinity Quotes - Page 2

• The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see between themselves and women, and is a form of the behaviour, masculinity, that creates and maintains male power… Male comradeship/bonding depends upon energy drained from women.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Men, Differences, Energy

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• Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Men, Gentleman, Males

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.232, Bantam

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• Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Honor, Littles

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

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• 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

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Heart, Men

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• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

  "Our blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Boxing, Religion, Celebration

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

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• 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 anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Men, Emotional

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• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Talking, Looks, Clinton

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• What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

  Todd Haynes

  Gay, Interesting, Eras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

  Vin Diesel

  Trying, Looks, Feminine

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  What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Powerful, Men

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• Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.

  Johnny Weir

  Sex, Believe, Sleep

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• The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Two, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

  Donald Glover

  Strong, Struggle, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

  Paul Theroux

  Men, America, Ideas

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Confused, Women, Movement

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• 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. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

  George Gilder

  Males, Female, Levels

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• You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Males, Ladybugs

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• At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force them to repress their emotions, establish hierarchies, and constantly prove their masculinity ... whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Compassion

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• Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Aging, Weary

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• Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

  Rad Hourani

  Style, Interpretation, Femininity

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