Quotes About Stereotypes

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Men and women are not equal.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

There are not many good roles for women.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.