Quotes About Stereotypes

Yup. Every black girl has to have a white Barbie doll. Black girls will get a black Barbie, but they have to have a white Barbie. The black Barbie never really seems like a true Barbie, not like the queen.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture…Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor -- as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness

Few of us realize the extent to which our notions of the deity are informed by patriarchal assumptions. We claim that God is raceless and genderless, yet we visualize God as white and male to such a degree that the very notion of a black, female God is enough to raise guffaws in response to a hardy, perennial joke.

DIDEROT: Vy Å¡ejdíÃ…â"¢i! THERBOUCHEOVÁ: Používejte pro mÄ› prosím femininum. Ã…Ëœíkejte mi Å¡ejdíÃ…â"¢ko. DIDEROT (temnÄ›): V ženském rodÄ› se Ã…â"¢íká spíÅ¡ dÄ›vka.

After all, in their fears about the vicious consequences of wealth, writers fell back upon stereotypical images of devouring, unreasonable womanhood, images that were as old as Eve herself–something which suggests we might better view such accusations as testimony to the persistence of male anxieties, rather than a simple guide to female behaviour. 13

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I'll be the girl they say pink things to, so weightless she arrives by ghost.

To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman's body is the woman. OStay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go.

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

you ask a member of the voting public a question on any subject most of us can only come up with three words we identify with that thing. The words depend on what our concerns are or what the papers tell us our concerns are

TEXAN: "Where are you from?" HARVARD STUDENT: "I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions." TEXAN: "OK, where are you from, jackass?" —Variation on an old joke

But I don't know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?" he demanded.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

I'm sure lots of schools have students who are able to form bonds of friendship across sexual identity stereotypes... even in Iowa

You don't look gay," Joey said suspiciously. Will blinked. Well, that was new. "Maybe I'm just really, really happy inside," Will responded with a bright smile.

No guy wants to come apart in front of his significant other," Ellery snapped. "There are entire books written about the fact that men are socialized to communicate worse than twelve-year-old boys at a sock-hop.

Gay porn is for gay men and straight women, I'm not telling you something you don't know.

Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight.

It takes a woman to get a job done right. Some men can't even die properly without the help of a woman.