Quotes About Stereotypes

Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

My whole life I've had people telling me that I look like a man, I'm not feminine, I'm too masculine, all that stuff.

I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am very feminine.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

If you're told to 'Man up,' you're essentially being told that being feminine is lesser.

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn't want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

People get really turned off by feminism.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

Women need to be treated equally as men, but there are issues with the term feminist and people balk at that.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist.

It's strange: There are feminists who like Barstool and then feminists who hate Barstool.