logo

Quotes About Stereotypes

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.
~ Emilio Estevez
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
~ Emma Goldman
BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.
~ Emma Watson
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
~ Erica Jong
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know
~ Esther Williams
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.
~ Florence King
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
~ Gao Xingjian
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.
~ Garry Kasparov
We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.
~ Geena Davis
Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.
~ Geena Davis
The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.
~ Gene Weingarten
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
~ Georges Courteline
They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
~ Gloria Steinem
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
~ Gloria Steinem
Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.
~ Harriet Lerner
The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.
~ Heidi
Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.
~ Helen Hunt
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
~ Henry David Thoreau