Quotes About Gender Stereotypes

#1. Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Adora Svitak

#2. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Gwendoline Christie

#3. There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes.

Edward Stein

#4. The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

Emma Watson

#6. I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

Twyla Tharp

#7. Jesus lives the challenge to our gender stereotypes and prejudices, but he is also wonderfully subversive in the ways he legitimates and empowers women.

Shane Claiborne

#8. Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.

Anna Howard Shaw

#9. I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns ... my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.

Melissa Kantor

#10. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#11. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#13. I'm a young woman who subverts the conventionally accepted gender paradigm because I refuse to conform.

Sara Benincasa

#14. Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

Elizabeth Bear

#15. Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Christine De Pizan

#16. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.

Mike Lew

#17. Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Neil Strauss

#18. I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.

Manil Suri

#19. Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.

William Keepin

#20. Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#21. In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

#22. Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.

Jane Austen

#23. Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Achard

#24. A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Isabel Allende

#25. They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

Andrea Gibson

#26. She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her."
His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something."
"Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. Sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Diana Gabaldon

#28. I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.

Joan Jett

#29. All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

John Irving

#30. Gender is not only women and sexual orientation has multiple choices.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#31. People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

#32. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#33. When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

Pat Conroy

#34. Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

J.M. Barrie

#35. Dude, I don't want to talk about Lacey's prom shoes. And I'll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It's called a penis.

John Green

#36. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

#37. We evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others).4 Our stereotype of men holds that they are providers, decisive, and driven. Our stereotype of women holds that they are caregivers, sensitive, and communal.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

Hilary Mantel

#39. Although the masculine form of appellation is typically used when listing the level titles of the various types of characters, these names can easily be changed to the feminine if desired. This is fantasy--what's in a name? In all but a few cases sex makes no difference to ability!

Gary Gygax

#40. Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.
"Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee.
"Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

Patricia Briggs

#41. I am somewhat allergic to explanations that divide men and women into frozen categories and attribute to each sex its characteristic virtues and shortcomings.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#42. When a man plans, a woman laughs.

David Wong

#43. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Liu Cixin

#44. Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

#45. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Cordelia Fine

#46. All surgery and no makeup make Jack a dull girl.

Brian Spellman

#47. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

#48. There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norah Vincent

#49. Camouflage your soul! Hide!Hide!Hide! The gender police are here. The gender police are everywhere.

Judy Croome

#50. Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.

Matthew Henry

#51. Women are extraordinary creatures!

Roman Payne

#52. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

Neal Stephenson

#53. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#54. In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

#55. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#56. The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Fulton J. Sheen

#57. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#58. Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Camille Paglia

#59. I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Kurt Cobain

#60. Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.

Dennis Sharpe

#61. When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

John Bargh

#62. At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

Kristin Hannah

#63. You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless( ... )

Tara Lain

#64. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf

#65. A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it

Michael Ondaatje

#66. It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

Sheryl Sandberg

#67. [ ... ] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

Helen DeWitt

#68. If you join the rat race - you're in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

#69. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#70. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

Shahla Khan

#71. Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

Ian McEwan

#72. Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

David Sedaris

#73. Ugh!" Rina shook her head. "Men are so fucking stubborn."
"Only when they're right ... " He shrugged. "Or wrong.

Damon Suede

#74. Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Rita Mae Brown

#75. All men are 'real men', whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu.

Miya Yamanouchi

#76. Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality.

Gudjon Bergmann

#77. Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.

Nicole Hollander

#78. There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.

Jamie Le Fay

#79. It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Deb Caletti

#80. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Christine De Pizan

#81. Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

Woody Allen

#82. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

#83. Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't think so, Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.

Rachel Caine

#84. Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.

Miya Yamanouchi

#85. The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

Terry Pratchett

#86. If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#87. If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Paul Fussell

#88. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#89. What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#90. Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

Belle De Jour

#91. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#92. Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.

Rachel Caine