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Quotes About Stereotypes

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
~ Lee Child
I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
~ Frances McDormand
Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'
~ Mischa Barton
'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.
~ Janet Mock
The way I think about it is there are some people who are supposed to be skinny, because I have friends of mine who are that thin and who eat more than I do and don't gain a pound, but that's just their frame.
~ Denise Bidot
I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
~ Lloyd Kaufman
There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.
~ Julie Burchill
If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.
~ Kelly Cutrone
I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
~ Rainbow Rowell
I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
~ Octavia Spencer
I think that's just part of what people do and part of being a female in the media. One day it's, 'Doesn't she look thin,' then the next day, 'She's put on weight.'
~ Caroline Flack
I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
~ Ashley Graham
I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn't allowed to be poppy at first because y'know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I've never felt beautiful, skinny and light.
~ Netta Barzilai
Unfortunately Bollywood goes ga-ga over thin not fit bodies.
~ Koena Mitra
There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It's by and large always heterosexual, it is either thin or fair people. It's not like that in the real world.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
There is a very thin line when a man plays woman. If you're not careful, you may end up looking like a eunuch. If you don't enact your role properly, you can look very bad.
~ Javed Jaffrey
Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.
~ Shefali Shah
As a woman,I understand that there is a very thin line between cheap and sexy.
~ Nandita Mahtani
For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
~ Olivia Colman
I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.
~ Jeff Kinney
I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
~ Kanye West
I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.
~ Brooke Burns
The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.
~ Maysoon Zayid
You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.
~ Katya Zamolodchikova