Quotes About Stereotypes
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that; and how little can a man know even of that when he observes it through the black or rosy spectacles which sex puts upon his nose.
~ Virginia Woolf
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Burada bir soluk al?p, sayfan?n kenar?na, Samuel Butler neden 'Ak?ll? erkekler kad?nlar hakk?nda ne düÅŸündüklerini asla söylemezler,' diyor, diye ekledim. Belli ki ak?ll? adamlar asla baÅŸka bir ÅŸey de söylemiyorlar.
~ Virginia Woolf
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Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such a presumptuous creature is esteemed, The fault can by no virtue be redeemed. They tell us we mistake our sex and way; Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing, play, Are the accomplishments we should desire; To write, or read, or think, or to enquire, Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time, And interrupt the conquests of our prime, Whilst the dull manage of a servile house Is held by some our utmost art and use.
~ Virginia Woolf
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insan doÄŸas? gereÄŸi, t?k nefesli, haz?r kravatl? ve iki haftad?r sakal t?ra?? olmayan küçük bir adamdan aÅŸa?? olduÄŸunun söylenmesinden hoÅŸlanm?yor.
~ Virginia Woolf
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Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!
~ Virginia Woolf
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Y denota estrechez de miras por parte de sus semejantes más privilegiados el decir que deberían limitarse a hacer postres y hacer calcetines, a tocar el piano y bordar bolsos. Es necio condenarlas o burlarse de ellas cuando tratan de hacer algo más o aprender más cosas de las que la costumbre ha declarado necesarias para su sexo.
~ Virginia Woolf
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And again I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.
~ Virginia Woolf
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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I'd much prefer to speak of the modern books that I hate at first sight: the earnest case histories of minority groups, the sorrows of homosexuals, the anti-American Sovietnam sermon, the picaresque yarn larded with juvenile obscenities.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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My boss is white," said Simple. "Most bosses are," I said.
~ Langston Hughes
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
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This is'nt like , vampire gay, is it? ~Kynan
~ Larissa Ione
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Oh for the love of God put a butt plug in the male tough-guy crap.
~ Larissa Ione
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If clothes make the man, what were they making? A way of insisting they were men, more men than men?
~ Larry Kramer
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Oh, that's a tiresome subject! Heterosexual comparison! Why do all faggots dredge that one up? Straights don't compare themselves to us! We're all the same anyway. We've just got an added dose of the clap.
~ Larry Kramer
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~ Larry Miller
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There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn't just hand everything over to women and be done with it.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
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O puede que no tengas juicio y se te cuelgue directamente -sonrió enseñando todos los dientes-. Así es como tratamos aquí a los extranjeros que vienen a prender fuego a nuestras casas.- (...) -Por lo visto solo tratáis así a los que vienen del continente-replicó, furioso y decepcionado-, porque a los vikingos, en lugar de colgarlos, les entregáis todo vuestro dinero. Sin embargo, contra un pobre juglar si que podéis, ¿verdad?-
~ Laura Gallego García
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he couldn't believe he was feeling this way now about a woman with purple hair and a rap sheet. About
~ Laura Griffin
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There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.
~ Laura Kalpakian
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A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.
~ Laura Levine
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Cynthia didn't mind Confederate flags. She'd like to see a law that required every white trash hillbilly to have one tattooed on his or her forehead. You would see them coming that way.
~ Laura Lippman
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Are you using 'he' generically, or because it seems probable that a man did this?" Hunt shrugs, indifferent to pronouns. Men can afford to be.
~ Laura Lippman
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while the great lot of the rest of them went around dressed as if for a carnival, a grandiloquent parade of ridiculous and absurd Third Worlders. And
~ Laura Restrepo
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