Quotes About Misconceptions

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

Nice girls finish last.

Yeah, she's such a headcase. I guess it's never occurred to her that two people of the opposite sex can just be friends

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.

whenever a single woman over 40 brings up the topic of love, again and again the assumption, rooted in sexist thinking, is that she is 'desperate' for a man. No one thinks she is simply passionately intellectually interested in the subject matter. No one thinks she is rigorously engaged in a philosophical undertaking wherein she is endeavoring to understand the metaphysical meaning of love in everyday life. No, she is just seen as on the road to 'fatal attraction.

At times women find it difficult to hear what many men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.

The wrongminded notion of feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent. Many women, even those involved in feminist politics, chose to believe this as well.

Creo que esta infelicidad se debe en muy gran medida a conceptos del mundo erróneos, a éticas erróneas, a hábitos de vida erróneos, que conducen a la destrucción de ese entusiasmo natural, ese apetito de cosas posibles del que depende toda felicidad, tanto la de las personas como la de los animales.

People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.

People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.

I used to think that Bollywood is a place where actresses are required to expose. I didn't want to act in films.

I think most people thought that because I am quite reserved and private, I wouldn't make a good captain.

I think there are a lot of misconceptions on both sides, the developing vs. the developed world, especially about America. I've felt the frustration in my lack of belonging to any one place, but I've also felt it liberating to be able to appreciate something without feeling disloyal to my own culture.