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Quotes About Stereotypes

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 
~ Oscar Wilde
I like men who have a future and women who have a past
~ Oscar Wilde
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cuando una mujer vuelve a casarse es porque detestaba a su primer marido. Cuando un hombre vuelve a casarse es porque adoraba a su primera mujer. Las mujeres prueban suerte. Los hombres arriesgan la suya. -Narborough
~ Oscar Wilde
But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from hearsay. No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
~ Oscar Wilde
People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.
~ Oscar Wilde
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age.  It looks so calculating .
~ Oscar Wilde
All through schools, jobs, and bumming, I haven't even held the hand of a Mexican woman, excepting whores who are all the same anyhow
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
Here a young girl in high heels wears a bikini, a blue bikini, with blonde hair. Standing next to her is a girl as young as Rosalie, in a mini-skirt and a strap over her little red nipples
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
Male beauty's better for neglect.
~ Ovid
When boys get mad its not so bad When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
~ P.C. Cast
Dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivaled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.
~ Pamela Spiro Wagner
in my experience men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armour, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles—or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realized we're not the gentle creatures they take us for their own peace of mind would be disturbed?
~ Pat Barker
in my experience, men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armor, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles - or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realised we're not the gentle creatures they take us for, their own peace of mind would be disturbed?
~ Pat Barker
Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.
~ Pat Barker
Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.
~ Pat Conroy
You the white teacher. I thought you one of the boys." Then she paused. "You gonna drink it?" "Yep." "Teachers drink?" "Yep." "That's good. Oh Gawd, that's so good. I got some gin in that there paper bag when you finish.
~ Pat Conroy
The world is divided up into two parts, beer drinkers and wine sippers. In other words, the world is divided into beer drinkers and assholes.
~ Pat Conroy
One's just supposed to conform. I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.
~ Patricia Highsmith
I know men who regard religion as something for women and children and preachers. They pride themselves on being "he-men" who can fight their battles alone.
~ Dale Carnegie
It is my contention that the population in general and male literary critics in particular entertain a negative image of women and their words, to the extent that it is widely believed that you don't have to read women's writing to know it's no good!
~ Dale Spender
Women who want to get rid of the belief that women writers are deficient might be better advised to challenge those who are doing the disqualifying, rather than to insist that they are not women, but human.
~ Dale Spender
As was the case with so many young people I encountered these days, I could not tell if the boy was truly retarded or just pitifully ill educated. Most of the population under thirty appears to fall into one or the other category.
~ Dan Simmons