Quotes About Stereotypes

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.

In an Italian restaurant we expect to find spaghetti in tomato sauce; in Polish and Irish restaurants lots of potatoes; in an Argentinian restaurant we can choose between dozens of kinds of beefsteaks; in an Indian restaurant hot chillies are incorporated into just about everything; and the highlight at any Swiss café is thick hot chocolate under an alp of whipped cream. But none of these foods is native to those nations.

In the language of the Dinka people of the Sudan, 'Dinka' simply means 'people'. People who are not Dinka are not people. The Dinka's bitter enemies are the Nuer. What does the word Nuer mean in Nuer language? It means 'original people'. Thousands of miles from the Sudan deserts, in the frozen ice-lands of Alaska and north-eastern Siberia, live the Yupiks. What does Yupik mean in Yupik language? It means 'real people'.3 In

A real 'clash of civilisations' is like the proverbial dialogue of the deaf.

Qualities considered masculine are more valued than those considered feminine, and members of a society who personify the feminine ideal get less than those who exemplify the masculine ideal.

Books make dangerous devils out of women.

Nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Have you ever noticed? In cartoons, fathers are often useless loafs, incapable of even the least bit of kindness. Even though there's no more tender meat than a father's heart!

I'm not the sexiest thing in the world. I feel actors who have to play sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.

Kobiety tak rzadko maj? sposobno?? wyst?powa? w charakterze ludzi, ?e wymagamy od nich, by w kobieco?ci ich zawiera?o si? ca?e ich cz?owiecze?stwo. I sami nie zdajemy sobie sprawy, jak w ten sposób w?a?nie poni?amy kobiet?.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Sometimes we don't have great imaginations for beauty. Sometimes we don't have great imaginations for God. We are confined and limited by stereotypes and preconceived expectations. I believe that the word of God, far from confirming everything we already think we know, can surprise us. We are borne on vulture's wings.

I could be a housewife… I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.