Quotes About Stereotypes

Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.

The rules of perception in show business were broken: if they're Black then it's a gang; if Italian it's the mob; but if they're Jewish then it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it. — Dave Chappelle (Never say never. — Dom Mascara) Contract negotiation is like braces: it sucks the entire time and then as soon as you get them off, you forget you ever had them. Richard Sherman

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Left-wing lesbians are perfectly natural," Giorgio says, "but there's something about a right-wing lesbian that's, I don't know…almost North American. Sort of Fox News–ish.

The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain't never gonna run out of is white trash.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

had been happy to play the part of a Brontë heroine if it meant she wouldn't have to learn how to cook.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Men are fools when it comes to women.

other children's stories were certainly unabashedly racist, too. Among the worst were the popular if unfortunately named series of Dumpy Books for Children, whose titles include the notorious Story of Little Black Sambo

Japanese women are refusing to take birth control pills, opting to leave contraception up to men. Do you know what they call women who leave birth control up to men? Mothers.

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!

She would have been considered a beauty in any period of history other than the early twenty-first century, when the only acceptable shape for a beautiful woman was that of a hungry six-year-old who had inexplicably grown solid apple-shaped tits out of her shoulder blades.

Everyone's different from how they look on the outside

society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man

Growing up with Steven and spending my summers with Jeremiah and Conrad, winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us.