Quotes About Stereotypes

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men.

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman but talks like a man..." Th Kinks

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

You can't feel yourself blushing. That's lady novelist talk.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Myth # 2: The unchurched are turned off by denominational names in the church name.

but we must show them that shedding blood should have nothing to do with being a man." This of course was said by someone who was not of the male sex. If she had created men they would have been nicer than the ones turned out by God.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.