Quotes About Stereotypes

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

Boys don't cry, but men do.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

All men are potential rapists.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.