Quotes About Stereotypes

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your bi... a.. back in the kitchen and make me some pie!

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, feminine ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your feet.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.