Gloria Steinem Quotes

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.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

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

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

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

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

All you single fathers got to man up.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

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

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