Quotes About Stereotypes

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.