Barbara Mertz Quotes

I kind of dated a woman-ish, but there's just something about a man that's just masculine, and just there's things that women don't have that men do.

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!

I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I was a tomboy.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

I was kind of a tomboy.

At heart I am a tomboy.

I'm not a very macho guy.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.

Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.