Masculinity Quotes

When the history of 20th century fashion is written, he is going to be one of the stars. He almost single-handedly put Milan on the fashion map. He expressed a new kind of masculinity with less structured men's wear - historically, his men's wear is more significant than his women's wear. - David Wolfe

What's intriguing is that part of the new masculinity, or M-ness, is man's recognition that he needs a woman. This realization comes, ironically, during the Era of Female Independence, a time when man can be replaced by boy toys, female lovers, abstinence, and even vibrators... Whereas men still need women, their traditional source of comfort and inspiration, women are increasingly less likely to feel the same about men. And that's changing everything about the rules of the game. - Marian Salzman

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

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

The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail. - Marc Feigen Fasteau

The deepest thing I have to say in comment to that is that the principle work is to be done within the individual him/herself, and to learn to cope with one's own masculinity and femininity within is an absolute prerequisite before one has the right to talk about exterior relationships. - Robert Johnson

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. - Alan Cumming

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. - Carlos Santana