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Quotes About Stereotypes

We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders. I am clanless.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt on, plucking a mandolin? Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt on, plucking a mandolin? Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys is a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
There are two things people in their twenties do better than anyone else: get drunk and fall down and experience unplanned pregnancies. That, Greta, is your specialty. That is your area of expertise, dear girl, not calling other women out for failing to be tablecloth woke.
~ Laurie Notaro
Nobody'd believe a story like yours except a dyke who shaves dogs.
~ Lawrence Block
These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
~ Gene Weingarten
Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.
~ Kevin Smith
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!
~ Gertrude B. Elion
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
~ Marissa Mayer
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
~ George Coyne
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
~ William Gibson
I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.
~ David Trumble
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~ Dorothy Fields
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
~ Jo Brand
You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
~ Fisher Stevens
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
But it is well known that the bourgeois pater-familias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities.
~ A. I. Kuprin