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Quotes About Stereotypes

Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.
~ Sheryl J. Anderson
I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with some one.
~ Shirley Jackson
My girls. Girls aren't boys, you know. Boys go to school. But what do girls do? Girls are like a bunch of geese; they sit at home, eat, and wait to grow up.
~ Sholem Aleichem
All you men are the same—you're not fit to fasten your wives' apron strings.
~ Sholom Aleichem
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
~ Shulamith Firestone
When I began making movies, the only crew jobs available to women were as script girls and in the editing department. As a result, I still think of movie crews as male. And in fact, they still predominantly are.
~ Sidney Lumet
Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are." — Dr. Kat Hunter
~ Sidney Sheldon
There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER
~ Sidney Sheldon
was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
~ Sidney Sheldon
The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.
~ Sigmund Freud
That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants—and should want—both.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Do everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they don't exist. Because only a slut looks back. Is that perfectly clear? Early lesson on the female condition.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
~ Simon Gray
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
~ Simon Mawer
Critically, I realised that terrorists, who I had always imagined as horned devils, could be worryingly human.
~ Simon Reeve
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Kad?n? götürüp mutfaÄŸa ya da süslenme odas?na kapat?yor, sonra da ufkunun darl???na ÅŸa??yoruz; kanatlar?n? kesiyoruz, sonra, uçam?yor diye yak?n?yoruz.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
On nous exhorte: 'Soyez femmes, restez femmes, devenez femmes.' Tout être humain femelle n'est donc pas nécessairament une femme; il lui faut participer à cette réalité mystérieuse et menacée qu'est la féminité. (...) Celle-ci est-elle sécrétée par les ovoires? Suffit-il d'un jupon à frou-frou pour la faire descendre sur terre?
~ Simone de Beauvoir