Quotes About Stereotypes

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

People said, 'You must be mad, or on drugs,' which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you're on drugs or mad, rather than free.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Miss?" She wasn't a "Miss"; she was well over forty, but the old ones loved being mistaken for young meat.

Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.

Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own?

There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is exotic. For some reason, Peter had thought she was the latter. But even if that had been the case, the problem inherent remains the same-- once she becomes a wife, the exotic becomes familiar, and thus predictable, and thus not what was wanted at all. Those few women who stayed exotic usually were considered, after a few years, to be crazy.

You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

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