Quotes About Stereotypes

but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men.

Murphy glanced longingly at the junk food stalls. "Do you think the fried Mars bar truck will be here?" "You're such a guy." Leeda readjusted the garment bag she was carrying, trying to keep it steady over one shoulder. "I like my guy-like qualities

Slightly said I was having "lady's hysterics". One of the twins mentioned something he'd heard about women going crazy twelve times a year.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that's true, how can they talk to their grandmothers?

From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.

They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

To get a headline, to get on the evening news, you have to attack a Jew. Otherwise you're ignored. And it's a shame. And we all play into it.

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as that which they have for us men?

Et puis qu'est-ce que ça veut dire différents ? C'est de la foutaise ton histoire de torchons et de serviettes… Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences…

People assigned genders based on behaviors and work roles, often ignoring anatomy. Gender was a form of social recognition.

My mother says that smart women are always crazy.

There are many compelling reasons why social scientists should turn more attention to the situation of whites in the underclass. Prime among these is that researchers and politicians have constructed a grossly distorted image of poverty in this country. While whites constitute a vast majority of the poor population in the United States, blackness composes the most familiar visage in representations of poverty.

Many of these accounts became popular with the American public, and family clans like "The Jukes" and "The Kallikaks" became widely known, entering the public imagination as poor, dirty, drunken, criminally minded, and sexually perverse people.

Orientalism is a critique, ornamentalism a theory of being.

The fact that it took him a decade to realize I was five foot four and plump instead of a five-foot-ten pole dancer with big tits was confusing.

Between the ages of 15 and 25 a woman reaches her maximum attractiveness.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

was struck by American ignorance about the rest of the world and Americans' crude idea that Russia

Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.

Boys, overwhelmingly, go into jobs with a mechanical or theoretical bias, girls into jobs which, for the most part, involve some form of human interaction, like catering, social, or secretarial work, or teaching.