Quotes About Stereotypes

He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope.

Los niños de mi colegio son estúpidos. Pero se supone que no he de llamarlos estúpidos, ni siquiera aunque sea eso lo que son. Se supone que he de decir que tienen dificultades de aprendizaje o que tienen necesidades especiales.

You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base.

I love the saying "Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.

Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes toward immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, look after our children.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

The Jew's really the better-looking.

Laying aside for the sake of clearness that indefinite term of girl — for girls are girls from the age of three up to forty-three, if not previously married

I hate the twaddle talk of love, whether it's about myself or about any one else. It makes me feel ashamed of my sex, when I find out that I cannot talk of myself to another woman without being supposed to be either in love or thinking of love, -- either looking for it or avoiding it. When it comes, if it comes prosperously, it's a very good thing. But I for one can do without it, and I feel myself injured when such a state of things is presumed to be impossible.

They say women are to vote, and become doctors, and if so, there's no knowing what devil's tricks they mayn't do.

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

The Van Dykes had determined that America was suffering from "testosterone poisoning," and vowed that they would speak to men only if they were waiters or mechanics

Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers.

Lysistrata: Calonice, it's more than I can bear, I am hot all over with blushes for our sex. Men say we're slippery rogues-- Calonice: And aren't they right?

Women grow old; women cease to learn; but men, never.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

The French produce the best second-raters in the world.