Quotes about Stereotypes
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey
Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.
- Gloria Steinem
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
- Stephen Malkmus
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
- Ava DuVernay
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
- Don Cheadle
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
- Gloria Steinem
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
- Mae West
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah
- Paulo Coelho
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
- Hillary Clinton
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.
- Tina Fey
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer