Quotes about Stereotypes

Just because we all have wombs doesn't mean we have to be mothers, just like we all have vocal cords doesn't mean we're all opera singers.

When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.

The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.

There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.

The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion.