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Quotes About Stereotypes

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
~ Lynsey Addario
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
~ Katherine Dunn
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.
~ Ilka Chase
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
~ Mae West
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
~ Barry Goldwater
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.
~ Sigmund Freud
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
~ Lauren Mayberry
The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.
~ Thomas Haden Church
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
~ Samuel Johnson
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
~ Tina Fey
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
~ Katherine Dunn
When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.
~ Kate Clinton
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.
~ Caitlin Moran
Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
~ Carrie Coon
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
~ Julie Burchill
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
~ Charlie Huston
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.
~ Charlize Theron
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
~ Amber Heard
Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.
~ Curt Goetz
I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help.
~ Ellen DeGeneres