John Steinbeck Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I like being able to be a man.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

A man that doesn't have a woman doesn't know if he is one (a "man").

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.