Quotes About Stereotypes

But I'm hesitant to introduce myself with this characterization, immediately reducing everything I am to my alcoholism. It's strange that the tendency in this global world is to accentuate identities, picking the one that most marginalizes you—sexuality, race, disability. I'm struck by the way we all rush to join our particular group, emphasizing what makes us different from everyone else, in order to make us all the same.

Husbands, in general, tend to complain a lot

El libertinaje femenino paga costos mientras el masculino cobra méritos.

Ever think of becoming a cop?" "I did, but at the time there wasn't much opportunity for women. Lady cops were confined to typing, taking shorthand, and the juvenile division." "And I don't suppose you have any womanly skills like typing or taking shorthand?" I smiled. "No, but I'm a mean shot with a .38 and I bake terrific bread.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it is usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

If you want something said,ask a man;if you want something done,ask a woman.

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.

Camels are snobbishand sheep, unintelligent;water buffaloes, neurasthenic—even murderous.Reindeer seem over-serious.