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Quotes About Stereotypes

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
~ Lena Dunham
Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.
~ Leslie Bibb
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
~ Libba Bray
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
~ Lisa Gardner
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
~ Liz Phair
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
~ Liz W. Garcia
Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.
~ Liza Johnson
Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.
~ Lois Gould
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
~ Louise Hay
It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
~ Madame de Stael
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
~ Margaret Atwood
I just think women are funnier than men.
~ Margaret Cho
Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.
~ Margaret Cho
Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
~ Marianne Williamson
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
~ Marilyn Monroe
Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.
~ Mark Twain
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.
~ Maryann Brandon
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.
~ Max Hastings