Masculinity Quotes - Page 4

• As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Boys, Violence

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman (Chapter 5), 1993.

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• I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Years, People

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• Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Half, Unjust, Abomination

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• Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me was the value of the work itself. If a woman had come along, somebody like Lee Bontecou or Louise Nevelson, and said, "I'm working on the land," I would have gone to see it.

  Virginia Dwan

  Important, Femininity, Honestly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

  Jess Row

  White, Differences, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.

  Judith Butler

  Confused, Heterosexuality, Dynamics

  Source: ilga.org

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• Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.

  Hamid Drake

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Quality

  Source: the-attic.net

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• In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

  Otto Weininger

  Genius, Individual, Cases

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• When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the children, being a strong role model. But I think going as far as cooking and putting the apron on, that takes away the masculinity, and I would miss that.

  Penny Lancaster

  Strong, Children, Home

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• Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and the proper relationship between a man and his children.

  Stephen Marche

  Children, Father, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Boys, Community

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliation and abuse are condensed into digestible spectacles endlessly circulated through extreme sports, reality TV, video games, YouTube postings, and proliferating forms of the new and old media.

  Henry Giroux

  Sports, Pain, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's always advantages and disadvantages to doing any role. And there's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role, or an action-adventure, or a real tough-guy role. Really, if you're doing a comedy, you can sit back and relax. And it's good to know that at the end of the day, you don't have to run off for another two hours and go to the gym, or go spend the rest of the night swordplaying with stunt guys. Then I think, "Oh my God, I love comedy.".

  Gerard Butler

  Running, Fun, Real

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, Real, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

  Kehinde Wiley

  War, America, Imagine

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.

  Elle Fanning

  Girl, Fashion, Teenage

  "A Horror Film About Beauty: Nicolas Winding Refn & Elle Fanning On "The Neon Demon"". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. June 21, 2016.

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• So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Hands, Play

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason.

  Rose McGowan

  Men, Scared, Rage

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was so important and powerful. That is something our scene has - regardless of who is in it, it has this very powerful feminine energy, like a Nefertiti head bust or Storm from X-Men. It's a woman you see as very powerful, sassy, arrogant, and dark.

  Le1f

  Powerful, Sassy, Dark

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Shapes, Gender, Femininity

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• In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.

  Rachael Taylor

  New York, Father, Inspiration

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

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• I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Phones, Pockets

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• Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that did you hear?" "Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight," said Jordan. "I heard about the Ironworks event. I'm not in the Garroway pack, so I wasn't invited." "I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone back into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We'd better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Lying, Party

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

  J. Lynn

  Enough, Sexuality, Dreamy

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• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

  Thucydides

  Beautiful, Loss, Simple

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