Jilly Cooper Quotes

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

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

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

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

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

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

Real men don't know what they want for Christmas. Despite the fact I'm deeply disappointed every Christmas. I pride myself on not wanting anything. Children want things, women want things, dogs and cats want things, but men don't.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.