Quotes About Stereotypes

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.

Do you still throw spears at each other? (to Australian Aborigines during a visit to Queensland)

The woman was plodding laboriously forward, bent beneath the weight of an enormous sack of chestnuts, while her husband sauntered along with only a rifle in his hand, and another slung over his shoulder; for it is unbecoming for a man to carry any burden but his weapons.

He who listens to the advice of a woman is a fool.

The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

All generalizations are bad.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

How does the old cliché go? When every Arab girl stood in line waiting for God to hand out the desperate-to-get-married gene, I must have been somewhere else, probably lost in a book.

Rarely was Arabic used for physics, chemistry, or mathematics in any of the schools of Beirut, whose main curriculum has always been community conformity. It seems that Arabic is not considered a language for logic. A joke that used to make the rounds when I was a child, probably still going strong: the definition of parallel lines in geometry textbooks in Saudi Arabia is two straight lines that never meet unless God in all His glory wills it.

It is because we have not learned to regard men and women normally, in their own proper places, that we have conjured up a cluster of poetic notions about them.

Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.

Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.

and having never felt all that womanly in the first place, I believe the habit of impersonation has gone deeper in me than most, to the extent that some aspects of me do seem in fact to be male... The fact is that I received the clear message from the very beginning that everything would have been better- would have been right, would have been how it ought to be- had I been a boy.

a saddening thought, she said, that when a group of women get together, far from advancing the cause of femininity, they end up pathologising it.

Why do you play at being a woman?

The fact is that I received the clear message from the very beginning that everything would have been better – would have been right, would have been how it ought to be – had I been a boy.

Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, the imagine my mom and dad having sex.