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Quotes About Stereotypes

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
~ Ashley Scott
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
~ Victoria Wood
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
~ Julius Caesar
Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
~ Kathleen Hanna
Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
~ Phil McGraw
I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.
~ Candy Darling
I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
~ Tommy Emmanuel
It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.
~ Lenny Henry
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).
~ Cybill Shepherd
A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.
~ Cynthia Nixon
I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
~ Gene Kelly
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.
~ Mordecai Richler
Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.
~ Hedi Slimane
What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?
~ Kate Bornstein
I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
~ Rupert Everett
I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
~ David Henry Hwang
No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
~ Frank O'Connor
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
~ Aimee Mullins
All the men on my staff can type.
~ Bella Abzug
The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.
~ Bill Maher
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
~ Dinah Shore