Quotes About Stereotypes

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

That's the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we've even made up our minds about ourselves.

A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man, if you will pardon me, stops learning at fourteen or so. He shuts it all down, Mr. Robbins. A log is capable of learning more than a man. To teach a man would be a battle, a war, and I would lose.

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

If our highly pointed Triangles of the Soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our Women. For if a Soldier is a wedge, a Woman is a needle; being, so to speak, ALL point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a Female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.

The current crop of experts claimed that baby girls stare at faces while baby boys watch the mobile over their cribs. They extrapolated from this to conclude that women are inherently interested in people and men are inherently interested in objects. ... Turner supposed they might be right in a statistical sense, but numbers don't tell the whole story. If you have one foot in boiling water and one in a tub of dry ice, on the average you're comfortable.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Why? Oh, Holy Cow!" I groaned. "Please not to use these ridiculous expressions," he exploded in exasperation. "I have never heard any other Americans use them except those—what do you call them—those cartoon animals. Mickey Mouse." "Micky Mice," I said firmly.

Please don't be mad at me," Rich said. "I thought when a woman cared about a man, she naturally wanted to care for his house. It's like an instinct." "Wrong," Helen said. "There's no connection between hormones and housekeeping.

There's no leeway for a woman's looks. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

The prostitutes were from the lowest social levels and, like all women who catered to foreign men, came to be called rashamen, "Western sheep," and were ostracized from Japanese society. 29 From this group of Japanese women the Western artists and photographers found their models.

If Vittoria really is that, I thought, discouraged, then she is ugly, she has the ugliness of banality.

Do men learn from women? Often. Do they admit it publicly? Rarely, even today.

Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.

W]hile men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.

Non era riuscito a stare zitto, l'amicizia tra maschi ha i suoi patti non scritti ma solidi, non come quella tra femmine.

No había podido callarse la boca, la amistad entre hombres tiene pactos no escritos pero sólidos, no como la amistad entre mujeres.