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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Automatic Being Being A Man Bodily Felt Friends Instinctively Irritated Long Long Time Machine Man Man-Made Mechanism Processes Repelled Scientific Sentient Sometimes Time Use Word

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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Being Being A Man However Man Masculine May Objection

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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

~Andrew Cohen

Topics: Also Amount Around Attached Being Being A Man Experience Fear Gender Idea Identified Insecurity Lot Male Man Men Most Tremendous Tremendous Amount Very Women Women Are

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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

~Andrew Cohen

Topics: About Almost Almost All Anxiety Around Being Being A Man Burdened Confusion Excruciating Fear Ideas Man Many Pain Question Self-Doubt Us Woman

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This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

~Augustus Y. Napier

Topics: Because Being Being A Man Change Changes Changing Determined Happens Kind Man Motive Often Only Out Parent Part Want Wanting Way

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People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

~Bow Wow

Topics: Ask Being Being A Man Better Big Car Deep Deep Down Displaying Down Each Feel Feeling Girl Going Good Heart Houses How Inside Just Life Looks Man Me Never Out Outside People Person Personally Pouring Really Record See Understand You

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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.

~Chris Kyle

Topics: About Afterwards Being Being A Man Country End Even Fighting Hate In The End Iraq Just Love Man More People Story Than Well

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There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.

~Daniel Kaluuya

Topics: Armor Around Being Being A Man Black Crazy Deeper Down Going Got Lot Make Man Men People Running Scars Should Sitting Talking Therapy Thing Those Trauma You

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Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Ability Based Being Being A Man Concept Constantly Dominant Even Man Masculinity Models Our Politicians Required Role Role Models Society Superheroes Tough Violent Where

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I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.

~Dierks Bentley

Topics: About Allowed Also Am Been Being Being A Man Coolest Country Country Music Ever Feel Fell Life Like Love Man Music My Life Place Songs Still Think Too Which Write I Think

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