Traditional Masculinity Quotes

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.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.

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

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

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.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old fashion tough guys, run some risk.... This guy is very much an old fashioned masculine, muscular guy, and there are political risks associated with that. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that’s how it is.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

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.

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

His masculinity was only too apparent

In our time, a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

I like a strong male, a strong man. I like strong men.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.