“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”
Norman Mailer
“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”
“A woman simply is, but a man must become. 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
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
“Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Gloria Steinem
“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
