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Quotes About Stereotypes

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
~ Julie Burchill
Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.
~ Julie Nixon Eisenhower
A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.
~ June Diane Raphael
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
~ Junot Diaz
I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
~ Kaitlin Olson
I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.
~ Kajol
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
~ Karen Joy Fowler
["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.
~ Karla Souza
I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
~ Kate Flannery
I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.
~ Kate Nash
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.
~ Kate Zambreno
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
~ Katee Sackhoff
Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!
~ Kathy Lette
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
~ Keira Knightley
I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.
~ Kemp Muhl
I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
~ Kesha
I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.
~ Ketch Secor
Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.
~ Kristen Wiig
I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
~ Kristin Hersh
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
~ Lady Gaga
I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
~ Lady Gaga
The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
~ Lauren Graham
I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.
~ Laurie Simmons