{
  "type": "topic",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "name": "masculinity",
  "slug": "masculinity",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity",
  "heading": "Quotes about masculinity",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity.md",
  "quotes_count": 37,
  "authors_count": 21,
  "parent": {
    "name": "men",
    "slug": "men",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men",
    "heading": "Quotes about men"
  },
  "children": [],
  "quotes": [
    {
      "id": "c9a44ef0-2eb5-48da-9246-af12ada84030",
      "slug": "one-way-to-be-strong",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/one-way-to-be-strong",
      "text": "One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn’t afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Neal Stephenson",
        "slug": "neal-stephenson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reamde",
        "slug": "reamde",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reamde#Day_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "dbdd487f-1bac-41b4-a16d-361698e498f6",
      "slug": "the-property-of-manliness",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/the-property-of-manliness",
      "text": "The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, — which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Phineas Redux",
        "slug": "phineas-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "c7c9600f-51d0-433f-b5a8-c65e76da4764",
      "slug": "according-to-usage",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger/ways-of-seeing/according-to-usage",
      "text": "According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man. A man’s presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies. If the promise is large and credible his presence is striking. If it is small or incredible, he is found to have little presence. The promised power may be moral, physical, temperamental, economic, social, sexual – but its object is always exterior to the man. A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. His presence may be fabricated, in the sense that he pretends to be capable of what he is not. But the pretence is always towards a power which he exercises on others. By contrast, a woman’s presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste – indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence. Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Berger",
        "slug": "john-berger",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ways of Seeing",
        "slug": "ways-of-seeing",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger/ways-of-seeing"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Berger#Ways_of_Seeing_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "b0cbc41a-9ea9-4ebc-8fa8-00ba9cd07778",
      "slug": "as-boys-without",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman/man-enough/as-boys-without",
      "text": "As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Pittman",
        "slug": "frank-pittman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Man Enough",
        "slug": "man-enough",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman/man-enough"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        },
        {
          "name": "father",
          "slug": "father",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/father"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Pittman#Man_Enough_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "a20c087d-f710-40a1-8782-3ca467bf2c5f",
      "slug": "but-after-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman/man-enough/but-after-the",
      "text": "But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Pittman",
        "slug": "frank-pittman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Man Enough",
        "slug": "man-enough",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-pittman/man-enough"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "growing up",
          "slug": "growing-up",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        },
        {
          "name": "rivalry",
          "slug": "rivalry",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rivalry"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Pittman#Man_Enough_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "915796fc-728d-4d0d-9f43-e0f8dbc24087",
      "slug": "to-men-cleavage",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld/seinlanguage/to-men-cleavage",
      "text": "To men, cleavage is like the nearest thing to a UFO landing nearby, that's what it is. To women, buying a pair of shoes that they really love is like boarding the alien ship. I think it's entirely possible that aliens have landed and they haven't been able to get our attention because we're so preoccupied with cleavage and shoes.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jerry Seinfeld",
        "slug": "jerry-seinfeld",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Seinlanguage",
        "slug": "seinlanguage",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld/seinlanguage"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld#SeinLanguage_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "b8a2ec68-9955-4194-99c4-f02bff12e734",
      "slug": "gender-roles-suck",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/maddaddam/gender-roles-suck",
      "text": "“Gender roles suck,\" says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Margaret Atwood",
        "slug": "margaret-atwood",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "MaddAddam",
        "slug": "maddaddam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/maddaddam"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#MaddAddam_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "ff4011d4-6451-482c-b9f6-2fca940d2188",
      "slug": "why-must-there",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia/why-must-there",
      "text": "\"Why must there be war?\" \"Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lavinia",
        "slug": "lavinia",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 87,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Lavinia_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "c1570b9d-d644-45f7-a85b-d46fa5cc5a01",
      "slug": "men-call-women",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia/men-call-women",
      "text": "Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lavinia",
        "slug": "lavinia",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 184,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Lavinia_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "bde32c0a-774b-4bdf-83e5-4fe7db85b9e3",
      "slug": "its-not-a-weapon",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu/its-not-a-weapon",
      "text": "It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tehanu",
        "slug": "tehanu",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "character",
          "slug": "character",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tehanu_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "8f0d7993-5c60-4352-bbc4-5fe9c30c4b87",
      "slug": "is-it-different",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu/is-it-different",
      "text": "“Is it different, then, for men and for women?” “What isn’t, dearie?”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tehanu",
        "slug": "tehanu",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tehanu_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "592cfc2f-b5cb-489a-91ac-1252b88106cc",
      "slug": "a-man-wants",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-left-hand-of-darkness/a-man-wants",
      "text": "A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Left Hand of Darkness",
        "slug": "the-left-hand-of-darkness",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-left-hand-of-darkness"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 95,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "respect",
          "slug": "respect",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "5249a1a6-8c3f-418b-a470-8b03f35087fd",
      "slug": "what-is-most",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-sontag/against-interpretation-and-other-essays/what-is-most",
      "text": "What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Susan Sontag",
        "slug": "susan-sontag",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-sontag"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Against Interpretation and Other Essays",
        "slug": "against-interpretation-and-other-essays",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-sontag/against-interpretation-and-other-essays"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 279,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "beauty",
          "slug": "beauty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag#Against_Interpretation_and_Other_Essays_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "63a7bfd5-41c1-42ad-8852-9536cbdb708e",
      "slug": "he-had-said",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-pearl/he-had-said",
      "text": "He had said, \"I am a man,\" and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. Although she might be puzzled by these differences between man and woman, she knew them and accepted them and needed them. Of course she would follow him, there was no question of that. Sometimes the quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could cut through Kino's manness and save them all.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Steinbeck",
        "slug": "john-steinbeck",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Pearl",
        "slug": "the-pearl",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-pearl"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#The_Pearl_(1947)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "f919671e-3ca2-4727-aadd-990ca525b853",
      "slug": "men-have-still",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer/the-whole-woman/men-have-still",
      "text": "Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Germaine Greer",
        "slug": "germaine-greer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Whole Woman",
        "slug": "the-whole-woman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer/the-whole-woman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 136,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer#The_Whole_Woman_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "85cbeed2-a253-4cf7-9531-b48a6b132b0b",
      "slug": "the-few-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer/the-whole-woman/the-few-men",
      "text": "The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Germaine Greer",
        "slug": "germaine-greer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Whole Woman",
        "slug": "the-whole-woman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/germaine-greer/the-whole-woman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 141,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer#The_Whole_Woman_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "ca62ae37-f596-4e64-a254-e9799a96acd4",
      "slug": "all-men-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/all-men-are",
      "text": "All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Hoyer Updike",
        "slug": "john-hoyer-updike",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rabbit Redux",
        "slug": "rabbit-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "time",
          "slug": "time",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_Redux_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "329a9187-62aa-4ac2-a908-826c0fa9057b",
      "slug": "maria-speaking-to-parlabane",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-cornish-trilogy/maria-speaking-to-parlabane",
      "text": "[Maria speaking to Parlabane] \"Very likely. You can't bounce me with abuse, Parlabane … by bounce I mean men always want to disconcert women and put them at a disadvantage; bouncing is genial, patronizing bullying and I won't put up with it.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robertson Davies",
        "slug": "robertson-davies",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Cornish Trilogy",
        "slug": "the-cornish-trilogy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-cornish-trilogy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cornish_Trilogy#The_Rebel_Angels",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "1d93842e-41d9-45c9-980d-b3a6c1e1a744",
      "slug": "i-had-hit",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/friday/i-had-hit",
      "text": "I had hit him in his male pride. Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Friday",
        "slug": "friday",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/friday"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 77,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride-2",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride-2"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Friday_(1982)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "90c35d16-e3fc-49af-b954-85b77acb23f3",
      "slug": "its-impossible-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil/its-impossible-for",
      "text": "It’s impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he’s eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he’ll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "I Will Fear No Evil",
        "slug": "i-will-fear-no-evil",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/i-will-fear-no-evil"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 427,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#I_Will_Fear_No_Evil_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd80a02-e534-4077-803c-07e35e3685b2",
      "slug": "if-it-has",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers/if-it-has",
      "text": "If it has to be done, a man — a real man — shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Starship Troopers",
        "slug": "starship-troopers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Juan_Rico_(or_Johnnie_Rico)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "67b11e05-66de-4585-a37a-4fba92ba2b3d",
      "slug": "the-gentleness-modesty",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park/the-gentleness-modesty",
      "text": "The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jane Austen",
        "slug": "jane-austen",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mansfield Park",
        "slug": "mansfield-park",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mansfield_Park_(novel)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "c5254d90-3a88-4507-a1c8-e95fa80e3297",
      "slug": "the-streets-of-every",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/hells-angels/the-streets-of-every",
      "text": "The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hunter S. Thompson",
        "slug": "hunter-s-thompson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Hell's Angels",
        "slug": "hells-angels",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/hells-angels"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Hell's_Angels:_The_Strange_and_Terrible_Saga_of_the_Outlaw_Motorcycle_Gangs_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "f7d2f19d-e82f-43c7-95fa-cf3adb284b3d",
      "slug": "so-it-is-easily",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/so-it-is-easily",
      "text": "So it is easily seen that the sexual insignes are nothing in themselves, for any of them, in another time and place, might belong to both sexes, the other sex, or neither. In other words, a skirt does not make the social entity, woman. It takes a skirt plus a social attitude to do it. But all through history, in virtually every culture and country, there has indeed been a “woman’s province” and a “man’s province,” and in most cases the differences between them have been exploited to fantastic, sometimes sickening extremes. Why?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Theodore Sturgeon",
        "slug": "theodore-sturgeon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Venus Plus X",
        "slug": "venus-plus-x",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 125,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Venus_Plus_X_(1960)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "78f259f1-1eae-4193-8159-a46e955782a2",
      "slug": "you-cannot-be-objective",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/you-cannot-be-objective",
      "text": "You cannot be objective about this because you have been indoctrinated, sermonized, drenched, imbued, inculcated and policed on the matter since first you wore blue booties. You come from a time and place in which the maleness of the male, and the femaleness of the female, and the importance of their difference, were matters of almost total preoccupation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Theodore Sturgeon",
        "slug": "theodore-sturgeon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Venus Plus X",
        "slug": "venus-plus-x",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 123,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Venus_Plus_X_(1960)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "456ed432-401b-4bb5-bc8e-338262ff7222",
      "slug": "father-dominated-people-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/father-dominated-people-who",
      "text": "Father-dominated people who form father-dominated cultures have father-religions: a male deity, an authoritative scripture, a strong central government, an intolerance for inquiry and research, a repressive sexual attitude, a deep conservatism (for one does not change what Father built), a rigid demarcation, in dress and conduct, between the sexes, and a profound horror of homosexuality. Mother-dominated people who form mother-dominated cultures have mother religions: a female deity served by priestesses, a liberal government—one which feeds the masses and succors the helpless—a great tolerance for experimental thought, a permissive attitude toward sex, a hazy boundary between the insignes of the sexes, and a dread of incest.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Theodore Sturgeon",
        "slug": "theodore-sturgeon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Venus Plus X",
        "slug": "venus-plus-x",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 131,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Venus_Plus_X_(1960)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "a020ae4c-2acc-4cba-9c0e-b006bb8afb62",
      "slug": "what-do-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/god-bless-you-dr-kevorkian/what-do-men",
      "text": "What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
        "slug": "kurt-vonnegut",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian",
        "slug": "god-bless-you-dr-kevorkian",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/god-bless-you-dr-kevorkian"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "friendship",
          "slug": "friendship",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "1b99c3a6-2478-4aa5-a6fa-d822ebfed6d4",
      "slug": "she-gave-an-envious",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady/she-gave-an-envious",
      "text": "She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry James",
        "slug": "henry-james",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Portrait of a Lady",
        "slug": "the-portrait-of-a-lady",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James#The_Portrait_of_a_Lady_(1881)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "ea4360e3-5071-4bc8-b10f-404d660f3b6c",
      "slug": "young-men-of-this",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/washington-square/young-men-of-this",
      "text": "Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry James",
        "slug": "henry-james",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Washington Square",
        "slug": "washington-square",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/washington-square"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "laziness",
          "slug": "laziness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laziness"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James#Washington_Square_(1881)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "c547f769-41f7-4bdf-abe1-5cd1f38a3e95",
      "slug": "only-boys-were",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn/only-boys-were",
      "text": "Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Earthborn",
        "slug": "earthborn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        },
        {
          "name": "excuses",
          "slug": "excuses",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/excuses"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthborn_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "a88c2eb5-e41b-4d97-abe9-fea89f6be8b2",
      "slug": "boys-always-argued",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn/boys-always-argued",
      "text": "Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Earthborn",
        "slug": "earthborn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "reason",
          "slug": "reason",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthborn_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "3fe02c1c-2907-4e0b-b216-a85938493ff3",
      "slug": "i-acted-like",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/i-acted-like",
      "text": "I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Ships Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-ships-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Ships_Of_Earth_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "b3754a2c-95b5-4987-a96e-89a54e989587",
      "slug": "it-was-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/it-was-not",
      "text": "It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Call Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-call-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride-2",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride-2"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Call_Of_Earth_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "b06ac668-8ed8-48b7-935a-c76e92fb2b72",
      "slug": "the-others-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/the-others-are",
      "text": "The others are even more likely to obey their god. Which is? It dangles between their legs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Ships Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-ships-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Ships_Of_Earth_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "d1dbf9c0-334e-4979-a6f7-6682be7942f6",
      "slug": "living-with-a-god",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/enchantment/living-with-a-god",
      "text": "Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enchantment",
        "slug": "enchantment",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/enchantment"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Enchantment_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "d12852dc-4385-48b5-98f9-14874de480e4",
      "slug": "studies-on-testosterone",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-wilber/a-brief-history-of-everything/studies-on-testosterone",
      "text": "Studies on testosterone … all point to a simple conclusion. I don't mean to be crude, but it appears that testosterone basically has two, and only two, major drives: fuck it or kill it.And males are saddled with this biological nightmare almost from day one, a nightmare women can barely imagine (except when they are given testosterone injections for medical purposes, which drives them nuts. As one woman put it, \"I can't stop thinking about sex. Please, can't you make this stop?\").",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ken Wilber",
        "slug": "ken-wilber",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-wilber"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Brief History of Everything",
        "slug": "a-brief-history-of-everything",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-wilber/a-brief-history-of-everything"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber#A_Brief_History_of_Everything_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "9bff4cc9-1f13-4f82-850a-15803e2079d6",
      "slug": "that-immaculate-manliness",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/that-immaculate-manliness",
      "text": "That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herman Melville",
        "slug": "herman-melville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Moby-Dick",
        "slug": "moby-dick",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 127,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "courage",
          "slug": "courage",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#Knights_and_Squires_(26)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:40"
    }
  ]
}