Quotes About Bias

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

The reality of it is there is still a massive stigma against Australian coaches and where we come from and I dont think that has changed or will necessarily change very quickly.

The perception of fat people in America is that they're fat, therefore they're dumb, they're lazy, and they must stink.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.