Jayne Ann Krentz Quotes

I think men who can cry are strong men

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.

I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?

Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

The fact that you have the ability to stand on stage and sing while you’re crying is so brave.

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.