Max Frisch Quotes

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.