Quotes About Stereotypes

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

But there's a world of difference between knowing a type and knowing a person. When you've traveled all over the planet, as I have, and communicate with people from other cultures, you come to understand that, ultimately, very few human beings conform to the stereotypes imposed upon them. And, for the most part, we all want the same things out of life.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.

When it comes to beer, we are the world's wimps. There

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.

1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

There's nothing less exciting than being thought of as part of a class of beings that are all the same," I said. "You're treating me as a thing.

how interesting that what comes out as doing the best he could in a man looks like neglect in a woman.

Which isn't to say I think women should be stuck with childrearing, but—how interesting that what comes out as doing the best he could in a man looks like neglect in a woman.

Seguramente não é essa massa rude, de iletrados, enfermiços, encarquilhados, impaludados, mestiços e negros. A isso não se pode chamar um povo, não era isso o que mostraríamos a um estrangeiro como exemplo do nosso povo.

Men who are prejudiced against women in executive positions have usually had a bad experience with one who swaggered in with a chip on her manly shoulder believing that she had to fight her way up, and fight men to do it. A gal like that can make it tough for the rest of us. Many in the women's liberation movement have done that—but few of them are executives and few are very good to look at. They have nothing to lose but their uncombed hair.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Why is it, Miranda,' she whispered, 'that such a sweet pretty creature is a schoolteacher – of all dreary things in the world . . .?

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch."

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

I often wonder why women have careers,' said Shredded Napkin suddenly, showing his teeth. I don't think he can possibly be saying what I think he's saying. He isn't, of course. Never mind. I'll stand this because Reality is dishing it out and I suppose I ought to learn to adjust to it. Besides, he may be sincere. There is a human being in there. At least he isn't telling me about something he read in the paper on women's liberation and then laughing at it.

Then he said, leaning forward: 'You're strange animals, you women intellectuals. Tell me: what's it like to be a woman?' I took my rifle from behind my chair and shot him dead. 'It's like that,' I said.

Everyone knows that much as women want to be scientists and engineers, they want foremost to be womanly companions to men (what?)

This is until you're forty-five, ladies, after which you vanish into thin air like the smile of the Cheshire cat leaving behind only a disgusting grossness and a subtle poison that automatically infects every man under twenty-one.

Still, the mythology persists in SF, as elsewhere, that women are naturally gentler than men, that they are naturally less creative than men, or less intelligent, or shrewder, or more cowardly, or more dependent, or more self-centered, or more self-sacrificing, or more materialistic, or shyer, or God knows what, whatever is most convenient at the moment.