Quotes About Stereotypes

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.