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“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
― Norah Vincent

“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced.

For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do.”
― Tiffany Madison

“It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

“He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread of his shoulders, tapering down to the narrow thrust of his hips, made my ovaries ache deep in my belly.”
― Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar

“What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as they resolved. The old men took no interest in this activity, knowing perhaps from long experience that it rarely meant anything or led anywhere, was a brief and helpless surrender to the forcing-house of the shower. In a few seconds the hard-on might pass from one end of the room to the other with the foolish perfection of a Busby Berkeley routine.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library

“Eyebeam: What do you mean, I have “male answer syndromeâ€�?

Sally: It’s the compulsion to provide an answer to any question, even if it means resorting to pure speculation.

Eyebeam: I knew that�

Sally: It’s a very widespread phenomenon.

Beth: I wonder what causes it?

Eyebeam: Cause? Well, society has chosen male role models who always exhibit total control� If a male says “I don’t know�, he’s admitting to conversational helplessness and failing to live up to that societal standard�

Sally: Pretty pitiful, huh?

Eyebeam: Damn!

Beth: …And I always thought they learned it all in “shopâ€�.”
― Sam Hurt, The Mind's Eyebeam

“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT.”
― Robert L. Slater

“Life managed without males for its first billion years, much of which was passed as single cells in a series of warm ponds. Then, in some ancient and neutral Eden, the fruit of the tree of sexual knowledge - a new mutation - persuaded members of a particular clone to fuse with cells from another, and then to divide. That ingenious idea is good news for the novel gene, as it doubles its rate of spread, but is a lot less so for those who receive it, who are obliged to copy the extra DNA. At once, two factions emerge, one keen to force itself upon the other. Thus sex was invented.
Soon one contestant began to cheat. Large cells are expensive, but are better at dividing because they have more food reserves. Small cells are cheaper to make, but cannot afford to split. Their sole chance of success hence lies in fusion with a large cell. The first males had appeared on the scene.”
― Steve Jones, Y: The Descent of Men

“Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.”
― Steve Jones, Y: The Descent of Men

“Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack: tenderness, and touch, and vulnerability.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

“Few chemicals confer maleness, but many take it away. Which, if any, are responsible for our own troubles is hard to say.

The Pill changed men's lives in more ways than one. It caused reproductive hormones to leak into tap water and has been blamed both for the sex changes in freshwater fish and for the drop in our own sperm count. The jury is still out on the issue, but other hormones have had a disastrous effect. A drug called diethylstilbestrol was once thought - in error - to prevent miscarriage. Five million mothers took it and for a time it was even used as a chicken food supplement. A third of the boys exposed to the drug in the womb suffer from small testes or a reduced penis. In rats, the chemical causes prostate and testicular cancer (although there is as yet no sign of those problems in ourselves).
To give a powerful steroid to pregnant women was at best unwise, but the effects of other chemicals were harder to foresee. The 1950s saw a wonderful new chemical treatment for banana pests. Soon the substance was much used. Twenty years later the workers noticed something odd: they had almost no children. Their sperm count had dropped by five hundred times.”
― Steve Jones, Y: The Descent of Men

“Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Both knife and sword will cause the same pain, both cow and dog will feed the same milk”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.”
― Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

“14. God created two sexes, male and female. They are equal in worth, although each is unique and different. It is not only impossible to blend maleness and femaleness into a single sex (unisex), it is dangerous to even attempt it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Bam got up and had the menacing aspect of maleness a man has before the superego has gained control of his body, come out of sleep.”
― Nadine Gordimer, July's People

“There is a birth defect that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of
chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is
shrunken beyond recognition. The result is shortened life span, higher mortality at all
ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in
attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess
of both outward and self-directed aggression. The main physiological mechanism is
androgen poisoning, although there may be others. I call it the X-chromosome deficiency
syndrome, and a stunning 49 percent of the human species is affected.
It is also called maleness.”
― Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

“Among most of the peoples that anthropologists are familiar with, true manhood is a precious and elusive status beyond mere maleness, a hortatory image that men and boys aspire to and that their culture demands of them as a measure of belonging.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity