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Quotes About Stereotypes

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~ Sharon Gless
I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
~ Sharon Horgan
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.
~ Shaun Williamson
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Men generally do not see women as competition.
~ Siri Hustvedt
...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
~ Stephen King
The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."
~ Stephen Marche
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.
~ Stephen Marche
I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?
~ Steve Berry
I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
~ Steven Moffat
Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.
~ Susan Estrich
The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
~ Suze Orman
Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
~ Tamora Pierce
Dating black women will ruin your life
~ Terrence Howard
It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.
~ Tim Gunn
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
~ Tina Fey