Hilarie Burton Quotes

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

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

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Men need to live and breathe women.

I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.