Quotes About Stereotypes

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater.

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He pronounced that novels were 'for ladies' maids' and ordered the librarian, 'Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.

In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by definition, sick. So what? Even if either condition truly is inherently undesirable, no manner of social pressure will turn blacks into whites or gays into straights. Social pressure will only exaggerate the handicap. It is still the prejudice, more than the condition, that does the harm.

I] settled down with the Daily News and the Post , glad to be back with journalism where all murders are "brutal," all prosecutors are "tough," and all blondes are "attractive." And any lawyer who cooperates with the reporter is "high-powered.

A fascist believes that if, for example, you're born black, or you're born Jewish, that you're predestined from that genetic accident to behave a certain way and deserve to be treated a certain way as well. My books stand for the proposition that the monsters who frighten us have a genesis, and the genesis is *not* genetic.

You know what pit bulls are capable of, right? But they're also capable of being the most wonderful, sweet pets in the world, depending on how you raise them. That's all our children.

Strange habits the Americans have! To imagine a lawyer as a gentleman is a contradiction in terms, surely!

Thomas was vaguely aware of the prejudice among the middle classes against the North of England. It mattered little to him – they were all Pommies.

Women don't need money. I mean what for? They don't drink, they don't play dice, and they're bloody women themselves.

Porque é que estão a olhar assim para mim? As mulheres não precisam de dinheiro. Para que é que elas haviam de precisar? Não bebem, não jogam aos dados, e elas próprias, que diabos, são mulheres.

Your talk's so clever it makes my head spin,' Milva snorted. 'And all your wisdom comes down to what's under a woman's skirt. Woeful philosophers.

Tym bardziej, ?e i Francja, i Europa mia?y ten geograficzny potrzask w dupie. To by? dla nich Wschód, a Wschód po prostu zas?ugiwa? na to, co dostawa?.

Jeste?my uwi?zieni w stereotypach. Wci?? si? ogl?damy za siebie, czy aby idziemy kup?. W ko?cu ?atwiej pyta?, czy ze mnie Europejczyk, czy Polak, a trudniej, czy aby nie je?op albo i ?winia.

That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.

I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably seen as too masculine by some and as too feminine by others, depending on how stereotypical they are. But I regard myself as a man in the classical mold — someone who develops the intellect, the physical body, and the spirit; creativity, courage, and compassion . . .

Women do not normally fuck in the active sense. They are fucked in the passive tense and hence automatically fucked-up, done over, undone.

Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Marcia listened to the comments and wondered why people thought that wearing ExtraOrdinary Wizard robes made her deaf.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.