Quotes About Stereotypes

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate, beautiful and yes, possibly annoyingly arrogant, makes us just a little nervous.

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.

I got called a boy all the time. Going into the bathroom, I still get the shocked look, like, 'Are you supposed to be in here?' But I'm so used to it now, I'm just like, 'I'm a girl, I'm in the right bathroom.'

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

You can still be a man and have an emotional side.

I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

I joke that the beard does 40 percent of the job.

Obviously, I can't get away from having a disability, but sometimes when you have a beard and long hair, people can't figure it out.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.

finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….

they share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don't wear masks or wield knives or drag women into the bushes. So they had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors.

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.