Masculinity Quotes

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

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

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.

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

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

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.

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

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

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

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

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