Quotes About Misconceptions

Ask a woman if she's ambitious and she'll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she's competitive and she'll look at you as if you suggested that she's a hooker.

Secondo le accuse, le "streghe" erano donne che avevano rapporti con il diavolo, si dedicavano a riti satanici e si abbandonavano a folli orge. In realtà si trattava di donne esperte in medicina naturale, per lo più contadine che conoscevano le proprietà curative delle erbe, usate ancora oggi. Ma queste donne, accrescendo le loro conoscenze e capacità di aiutare la gente, che le apprezzava, si affrancavano dalla dipendenza da Dio e dalla Chiesa.

En alguna ocasión alguien dijo que la ignorancia no consistía en no saber nada, sino en saber demasiadas cosas que no son verdad.

As far as I know, no one ever burned a bra. At the 1968 Miss America Contest in Atlantic City, several hundred feminists protested on the boardwalk by putting girdles, steno pads, aprons, dust mops, and other symbols of the "feminine" role into a trash can and threatening to burn them; it was an echo of Vietnam draft resisters burning draft cards. However, they couldn't get a fire permit and never burned anything. 4

The world suffers a lot because of false truths.

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

Things you might hear, Things you wanna believe, Things that aren't true, Things that people say, It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

No,' he said, frankly, 'I don't. I don't believe all this female intuition shit. It's something women have dreamed up.' 'You can say that--and in such a tone!' she mimicked him: 'Something women have dreamed up. But I can't say that--what men have 'dreamed up' is all there is, the world they've dreamed up is the world.

We think that once one has discovered that thirty thousand, let us say, Negroes, Chinese or Puerto Ricans or whatever have syphilis or don't, or are unemployed or not, that we've discovered something about the Negroes, Chinese or Puerto Ricans. But in fact, this is not so. In fact, we've discovered nothing very useful because people cannot be handled in that way.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

People can underestimate you when you're blonde and from Essex, but it's easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.

The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth.

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

People feel I only make films on underworld, but that's not true.

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

The unfortunate part of being an actor-politician is that people feel an actor will not take her political commitments seriously.

I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem