Penny Lancaster Quotes

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

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

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

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

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

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

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

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.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.