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Quotes About Stereotypes

Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.
~ Proverb
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?
~ Bill Maher
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
~ Martina Navratilova
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
~ Margaret Mead
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
~ Bette Davis
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
~ Christopher Morley
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
~ Betty Grable
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
~ Rebecca West
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
~ Richard Benner
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
~ Gloria Steinem
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
~ Oscar Wilde
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
~ Theodor Reik
Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).
~ Chanakya
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
~ Erica Jong
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
~ Katharine Hepburn
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
~ Oscar Wilde