Quotes About Stereotypes

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then?

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?