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Quotes About Stereotypes

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
~ Jane Seymour
I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.
~ Larry Flynt
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
~ Wanda Sykes
I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
~ Madeleine Albright
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
~ Susan Faludi
What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
~ Carrie Fisher
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
~ Alexander McQueen
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
~ Joanna Russ
Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
~ Emmett Tyrrell
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
~ Thomas Beecham
Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.
~ Will Durst
God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~ Betty Friedan
Witch hunters is white women's worry.
~ Marie Laveau
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
~ Deborah Tannen
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
~ Agatha Christie
Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.
~ Dean Kamen
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
~ Fatema Mernissi
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
~ Freya Stark
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
~ Peter Buffett
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
~ Lesley Nicol
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.
~ Madeline Kahn