Quotes About Stereotypes

Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.

Men were such victims to their own hormones. Machismo had killed a lot more people than PMS.

Why is it when a man gets mad, he's aaangry, but when a woman gets mad, it's just a tantrum?" She paused, struck by what he'd said.

Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb

When men are cruel, it's capricious. When women are cruel, it's serious.

Lani might be a screw-up with horrible taste in men, but she was still a mom. Why people assumed those things couldn't go together, I'll never know.

For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

We live in a very gynophobic society

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.