Quotes About Stereotypes

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we're all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we're perfect. Frankly, I'm not perfect.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Light-skinned women, we can break them down more easy.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think it's an American problem because I know a lot of white women and men who are having just as many issues trying to find 'that person' as anyone.