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#stereotype

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...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


#men-and-women #waiting #men

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.


C. JoyBell C.


#individuality #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #self-awareness

He was all over me like brown rice!


L'Poni Baldwin


#gay-dragons #humor #stereotypes #funny

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?


Umberto Eco


#originality #stereotypes #writing #beauty

Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short.


Francine Pascal


#snobbery #stereotypes #superficiality #sweet-valley #beauty

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


#gender-stereotypes #humor #women #humor

...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.


Susan J. Douglas


#motherhood #stereotypes

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.


Jane Austen


#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women.


Augustine of Hippo


#clichés #double-standards #fidelity #gender #hypocrisy

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame?


Moderata Fonte


#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy






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