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Quotes About Stereotypes

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
~ Martin Luther
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
~ Lois Wyse
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
~ Barbra Streisand
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
~ Erica Jong
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
~ Francois Truffaut
Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone.
~ Lenny Bruce
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
~ David Niven
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
~ Gloria Steinem
All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
~ Chanakya
Women love with their ears, men with their eyes.
~ Sunday Adelaja
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
~ Marlee Matlin
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.
~ Marlo Thomas
I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.
~ Marlon James
All the time she's silent. All the women were silent except the white one talking to Trent. If it wasn't for the red, green and gold and that the skirts are often denim, I'd think I was surrounded by Muslim women.
~ Marlon James
Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.
~ Marlon James
Police only have to see that me don't have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing 'round decent people, and give me two choices.
~ Marlon James
The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women.
~ Marlon James
While the effects of negative labels such as "lazy" and "stupid" may be more obvious, even a positive or an apparently neutral label such as "cook" limits our perception of the totality of another person's being.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
~ Martha Plimpton