Male Emotional Expression Quotes

What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

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.

I'm not a very macho guy.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

Most men are fragile.

It's 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.

Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

Guys aren't used to out-of-the-blue compliments.