Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There's nothing wrong with the feminine, there's nothing wrong with being vulnerable.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

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

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

My weakness is women.

In today's society, a lot of males think you have to be strong all the time, and you're not allowed to show weakness. That's just so false.

We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.

Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

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.

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 impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.