Quotes About Stereotypes

Je ne give a damn pas about le français, Les filles en France ne wear pas les pantelons

Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an "us" and "them" view of the world. (p. 135)

It might now be the occasion to remember that for the Romans, a barbarian was someone who wore trousers, had a beard and ate butter.)

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. TIGER WOODS

Even cannibals don't like to be called cannibals.

It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians.

Brooklyn and Jersey have a lot in common. People make fun of both and those who know better let them.

People who mock New Jersey have never been to Somerset or Hundertdon counties.

He was the only other Turkish person I had ever met who was actually interested in some specific field of knowledge, and who wasn't just automatically doing medicine, engineering, or the thing they called "management.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

She hadn't seemed maternal enough, or like a devoted-enough wife. So much more was expected of a female candidate.

Why is it 'housewife'? What would I call myself if we lived in a hotel? Nobody ever puts down just 'wife,' or even just 'mother.' If you haven't got a job, and you don't keep house, then you aren't anything. apparently. I wish I was something else. I mean, besides keeping house, I wish I was a designer, for instance. The children would think a lot more of me, if I was a designer. Maybe Tom would, too.

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman.

The way I saw it, nobody thought the worse of a man who followed his pecker anywhere it sniffed, like a droopy-faced hound dog led on by his nose. So why a woman did the same should be judged different… well, women always is.

So why a woman did the same should be judged different … well, women always is. Judged different, I mean.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain't because we're born with it, though. It's because we're schooled to it and taught early that if we don't have it we won't never win.

Amazing what people can fail to see when it's a man doing it to a woman, even a respectable-looking woman.

Why are people named Lovelace always villains when they appear in questionable literature? The only more certain moral doom lies in being namd Raffles.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore

The man, as you add it up, does whatever he feels like or doesn't, and the woman does everything else. The why of it, you have no idea.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

If I only could be a doctor!" she cried. "I believe it would be even better than being a sailor. Couldn't I be a doctor?" "Certainly not!" said Dr. Ozanne with twinkling eyes. "You're a woman, my dear, and women are not doctors, and never will be, thank God. A woman's place is in the home, doing needlework and enjoying delicate health.

Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the opposite; to believe that it is she, rather than themselves, who is being filed away, tagged, named at last like a quivering cell under a microscope.