Quotes About Stereotypes

Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.

To these old hands, rock and roll sounded like musical illiteracy, the undignified, untutored keenings of woebegone Negroes, hicks, and juvenile delinquents.

You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Shouldn't you be putting on makeup and curling you hair, doing girly stuff?" "I consider doing you girly stuff.

I'd fire that woman if I knew how to operate a vacuum.

Thomas eyed the array of hair products on the corner of the tub and snorted. "God, I forget sometimes how gay you are.

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war—it was part of the point.

The main reason given for banning drugs—the reason obsessing the men who launched this war—was that the blacks, Mexicans, and Chinese were using these chemicals, forgetting their place, and menacing white people.

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

A true German can't stand the French,Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.