Healthy Masculinity Quotes

“To heal, men and boys must learn to feel again.”
― Melia Keeton Digby, The Hero's Heart: A Coming of Age Circle for Boys

“In nature, Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) are balanced and equal. Ust as in nature, if society values one over the other, it weakens both and creates an unnatural state, where harmony is lost and turbulence is created.”
― S.J. Gold

“This is a crisis in our culture because we have stopped raising MEN and wee are raising P U S I L L A N I M O U S males at epidemic proportions!”
― S.J. Gold

“Why is the superficial, legalistic approach of purity culture often so ineffective in curbing toxic masculinity in Christian men? Because it deals in a truncated, false gospel. Rules and regulations for sexual behavior don't make men new. Rather, the renewal of our minds and bodies by the Holy Spirit is the solution to the broken masculinity that plagues our culture and churches.”
― Zachary Wagner, Non-Toxic Masculinity

“Sharing your emotions isn't a sign of weakness--it's a sign of strength.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Embrace sensitivity. Don't let a world that's frightened of soft men succeed in breaking you. We have too many broken men. We need men like you, men whose strength comes from being gentle.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Boys will be sensitive. Boys will be soft. Boys will be kind. Boys will be gentle. Boys will respect girls. Boys will be accountable for their actions. Boys will be expressive. Boys will be loving. Boys will be nurturing.

Boys will be different from everything the world has so far told them they have to be in order to be a man.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship