Cleveland Amory Quotes

You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

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

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

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.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

Everybody has their own little thing, but I don't do that. But my wife might take care of my nails or something, but I'm always groomed, I'm always, making sure I smell good.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.