Male Identity Quotes

'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.

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.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I'm a proper man.

I'm not a bro.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Our valiant legionnaires and Regulares have shown what it is to be a man to the reds and their women who have finally known real men and not militiamen.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.