Men and Masculinity Quotes in I Know This Much is True

Dominick naturally assumes that Dr. Barry Farber is a man, and Sheffer turns that around on him as though he's chauvinistic for assuming that. This may be true, but we might have done the same thing—her name is Barry, which is most commonly a male nickname.

No, not the Showtime show, but LUV. Dominick, as a big macho manly man, has a hard time saying I love you to his brother, and Lisa Sheffer gives him guff for it. She's a good guff giver.

For Ray, any sort of compassion, whether it be for human or animal, is feminine, which thereby means it makes a man less of a man to express these feelings.