Quotes About Stereotypes

he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible.

Just like the dry land to name the cruel things in the water after women.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

I think one of the great dangers faced by women over sixty in this country is starving to death in a restaurant. We were invisible.

People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.

Una vieja crónica tailandesa hace la siguiente descripción de los farang: "Son excesivamente altos, peludos y desaseados. Educan a sus hijos durante mucho tiempo y consagran su vida a acumular riquezas. Sus mujeres, grandes y robustas, son muy bellas. No cultivan arroz".

We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

Iadul sunt ceilalti.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

It's ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?

The only trouble with being female in Pakistan is that it allows for two possible modes of behaviour--either you can be sweet and simple, or you can be cold and proud.

I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not punk, not hipster, not skank, not prude, just a half-assed band geek -- no one can believe I'd do anything so well defined as lie. I like my new superpower.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.