Quotes About Stereotypes

Didn't you hear about the study that came out of England? The smarter you are, the less likely you are of getting married. The dumb girls are getting the guys.' 'So, you say that you give facials for a living, instead of that you're a lawyer who graduated with top honors from Harvard Law School?' 'Yes, and it works.

It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.

Educators worried that they might encourage women to pursue math and science who would then be left high and dry. One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

For a young American woman, it was all too easy to convince an inquiring stranger that the work she did was menial, or that she existed as a plaything for the men she worked for.

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One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

I have just gotten sick of always being called intense, you know?" "Intense is good", Maria saya. "Not for little girls" "For little girls who want to be the first female fighter pilots?

Her voice was unusually deep toned for a girl, he thought. Girls were always screaming what they had to say. Her throaty voice made you feel you had known her a long time.

Some times the best place to hide... is in other peoples prejudices

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Remember, about thirty-six years ago you and I met a girl named _____? She was symmetrical and well spoken. Not only that, but her father owned a chain of liquor stores, and she was reported as conveniently nymphomaniacal. Yet, as I recall, neither you nor I especially wanted her phone number. Maybe she was too wondrously neat, or maybe she was too predictably available, or maybe she gave the impression of being so vastly prized that we couldn't prize her at all.

Women have to be in the mood for sex. Men have to be breathing.

Some people say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. In actuality, you have to make an incision through his skin, both dermis and epidermis, then carefully sever and separate the sternum. Only upon viewing the exposed thoracic cavity can you reach the heart--if indeed the male of the species actually possesses such an organ.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

When blondes have more fun, do they know it?

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

Yes, yes, our countries are going to be friends, at last!' I didn't bother pointing out the minor detail that Obama wasn't my president. It didn't seem important. American, British, whatever. Great Satan, Little Satan, we had all been merged into one by the Islamic Republic's propaganda machine. No different from how Persians and Arabs are all one and the same in many western minds, I supposed.

I was ashamed to find myself contemplating that for the traveller, Iran's charms lay in its isolation. This was not a mindset I liked, or approved of; I didn't want to be like the smug backpackers in The Beach, trying to keep their special place a secret. I wanted the Iranian people to reap all the benefits from engaging with the world and for the rest of us to wake up to the reality that Iran is not a nation of desert-dwelling terrorists.

All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.

It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.

She's understanding now what women mean when they say females her age seem to disappear.