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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
Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it. -- Susan Griffin
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. -- Gloria Steinem
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. -- Sheila Jeffreys
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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
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. -- Vin Diesel
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
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
Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility. -- Douglas Wilson
Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations -- Rad Hourani
I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men. -- Collier Schorr
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. -- Sheila Jeffreys
Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. -- Camille Paglia
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable. -- H. L. Mencken
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. -- D. H. Lawrence
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. -- Aaron Eckhart
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. -- Leslie Feinberg
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
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity. -- Jackson Katz
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said. -- Saskia de Brauw
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
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
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. -- Gerard Butler
In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them. -- Kathleen Hanna
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 I believe it to be true. -- Tony Campolo
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I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone. -- Charles M. Blow
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
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
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off. -- Eve Ensler
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 some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other. -- Alec Baldwin
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
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. -- Gloria Steinem
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
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality. -- Judith Butler
The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood. -- Kim Jee-woon
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
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
The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea. -- John Eldredge
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. -- Carlos Santana
I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. -- Gary Ross
So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared? -- Joe Carnahan
I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already? -- Joel Salatin
His masculinity was only too apparent -- Barbara Mertz
I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage. -- Bryan Callen
No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity. -- Veronica Roth
My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit. -- Robin Green
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. -- Otto Weininger
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity? -- Larry McMurtry
You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs. -- Jay Leno
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. -- Meryl Streep
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity. -- Jess Row
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. -- Otto Weininger
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. -- V. S. Pritchett
I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity. -- Carl Froch
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity. -- Patricia Hill Collins
We need to begin to see hyper-masculinity as the disorder it is, and not as a strength. -- Bryant McGill
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost -- Joyce Carol Oates
My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them. -- Tom of Finland
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. -- Catherine Opie
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. -- Charles M. Blow
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. -- Jaron Lanier
You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity. -- RuPaul
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. -- Sigmund Freud
There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone. -- T Cooper
I'm confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie." -- J. Lynn
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage. -- Bo Burnham
I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it. -- Nate Parker
I'm confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie. -- J. Lynn
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove. -- Gloria Steinem
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. -- Jackson Katz
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
the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women. -- Sandra Marie Schneiders
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. -- Stella Young
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. -- Scott Thompson
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. -- bell hooks
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work. -- Kathe Kollwitz
It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way. -- Martin Amis
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn't allow for women, and it's also racist - it doesn't allow for other cultures. -- Larry McMurtry
The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity -- Julia Serano
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
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
Theres 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. -- Gerard Butler
All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. -- Nate Parker
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 the power of holiness. -- Pope John Paul II
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens. -- Donald Miller
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music. -- Macklemore
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
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do. -- Frank Pittman
Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry. -- Robert Jensen
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
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
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer. -- Robin Becker

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