Zitat des Tages über Männlichkeit / Manliness:
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
I don't know enough about manliness to define it.
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
