Quotes About Stereotypes

While to a grown woman his being a rock star was a bit distasteful

All you men still have the Victorian hangover. I suppose you think woman's place is in the home, too?" "Not my home.

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

when beautiful women get angry, it scares people. Ugly women get mad and it's just comical, right?

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

Meantime, the unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys.

It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners.

las italianas tienen a lo menos sobre las francesas la ventaja de ser fieles a su infidelidad

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, It's not like I hate gay people.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

Men will be men," Maureen told me when I wondered aloud where my father went in the evenings. "Don't complain," she advised. "That's how women find their freedom. When there's no one else at home.