#types

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#experience

While there still is a word for the word “normal”, the world with all it's constellations of problems will continue to assume they know what that means based on their experiences and upbringing. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bias #insane #normal #stereotypes #stupidity

Why do we have to behave like idiots to prove we're not a stereotype? Why do we have to rebel against ourselves? Enjoy the freedom to be shy ↗

— T.J. Bowes

#rebel #shy #stereotypes #freedom

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault. ↗

— John Gower

#clichés #deceit #delusion #discrimination #double-standards

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#men-and-women #men

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. ↗

— David O. McKay

#men-and-women #love

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

— John Irving

#transgender #men

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it. ↗

— Henry James

#men #relationships #tastes #types #love

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

— Bette Davis

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

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

#eve-rosser #gender-stereotypes #morganville-vampires #sexism #shane-collins