logo

Quotes About Stereotypes

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
~ Don Cheadle
The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.
~ Donald Symons
My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.
~ Donna Ball
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.
~ Douglas Wilson
The white man gets all the best catchphrases!
~ Eddie Murphy
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.
~ Elizabeth Aston
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
~ Ellen Page
What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.
~ Elliot Cowan
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
~ Ernestine Rose
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
~ Fay Weldon
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
~ Fay Weldon
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
~ Faye Wattleton
All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.
~ Gemma Halliday
Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.
~ Giles Deacon
When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.
~ Glenn Close
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
~ Gloria Steinem
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
~ Gloria Steinem
There are three kinda men in the world. There's men that own rope, men that use eye creme, and that dude from Nickleback.
~ Greg Behrendt
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.
~ Liv Ullmann
He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal
~ Loretta Chase
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
~ Loretta Chase
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
~ Madeleine Albright