“Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.”
Charles Bronson
“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
“The freedom of authentic masculinity is an amazing thing to see. It produces a "divine elasticity" in men. Finally they can lead with firmness, then submit with humility. They can challenge with a cutting edge, then encourage with enthusiasm. They can fight aggressively for just causes, then moments later weep over suffering.”
Bill Hybels
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Gloria Steinem
“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”
“In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.”
Andrea Dworkin
“Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable”
Henry Louis Mencken
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