“Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.”

“If you play close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.”

C.G. Jung book Libro rojo

“A man that is fully in his masculine energy is not a threat to a woman; instead, he is her greatest advocate.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

“Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

“This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

“Masculinity is tragic. Masculinity is a lifelong struggle, a gauntlet run against nature ad other men to demonstrate virility and prove one's worthiness as a man in the eyes of other men. Masculinity is a challenge to honor that ends only in death- a challenge to win coupled with a guarantee that, eventually, even the best man will lose.”

Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer