#types

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

#gender-stereotypes #marriage #men-and-women #change

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms. ↗

— George Packer

#stereotypes

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#comments #does #eight #everything #full-time

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them? ↗

— Poul Anderson

#live #our #them

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#beaten #had #out #passion #passionate

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! ↗

— Randy Bachman

#brick #browns #cave #color #ended

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here. ↗

— Louise Brown

#i #like #many #mention #music

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cross #dinner #formula #get #interesting

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

#gender-stereotypes #men-and-women #funny