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Quotes About Stereotypes

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.
~ Diego Maradona
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
~ Ian Mckellen
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.
~ Solange Knowles
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.
~ Deborah Tannen
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
~ Shulamith Firestone
The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
~ Tyra Banks
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
~ Dale Spender
Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
~ Faina Ranevskaya
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
~ William Westmoreland
White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
~ William Kristol
I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits
~ Natalie Portman
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
~ Christine de Pizan
What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
~ Dale Spender
Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.
~ Ronald Reagan
When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.
~ Doug Stanhope
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
~ Hedy Lamarr
When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny
~ Dennis Prager
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
~ Kim Cattrall
Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.
~ Stephen Colbert