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Quotes About Stereotypes

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
~ Marlo Thomas
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
~ Pablo Picasso
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.
~ Phyllis Diller
I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
~ Hank Azaria
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
~ Ida Lupino
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
~ Jimmy Cannon
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
~ John Cho
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
~ John Lone
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
~ Julie Burchill
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
~ Lara St. John
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
~ Whitney Cummings
There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.
~ Chic Murray
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
~ Christina Stead
Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
~ Coco Chanel
Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.
~ Colin Farrell
We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
~ Emma Watson
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
~ Ernest Lehman
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~ Ernestine Rose
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton