Quotes about Stereotypes

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

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.

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.