Quotes About Stereotypes

But I knew the first question Mom asked Gail was, Is it a boy or a girl? Because, for some reason, that is the first thing everybody wants to know the minute you're born. Should we label it with pink or blue? Wouldn't want anyone to mistake the gender of an infant! What is that so important?

More recently political scientist James Q. Wilson has made a similar argument. "The best way to reduce racism real or imagined is to reduce the black crime rate," he says.

One woman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, learned to carry a Bally bag when going to certain exclusive shops. Like a sorceress warding off evil with a wand, she would hold the bag in front of her to rebuff racial assumptions, in the hope that the clerk would take it as proof that she could be trusted to enter.

eres de los que piensan que una mujer cerca arregla el mundo. Mendieta no era de ésos. Al contrario, creo que si el mundo estuviera gobernado por mujeres el caos sería generalizado.

everyone always says that Lord Findleshanks is really a woman. Did you ever look at him closely? He does look like a woman.' 'He has a beard,' Harriet pointed out. 'So did my grandmother.

I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no different than other men.

That's just you trying to get away with shit, Ronald. You know damn well that a naggy wife is really just a lousy husband.

Pero creo que si todas las mujeres hablasen lo que piensan, como hice yo por culpa del champagne, más de cuatro y más de ocho se verían peor que esta individua".

But even more aggravating to the Russian is the Jewish usurer, who since the Middle Ages has fastened himself like a leach upon producer and consumer, and who, if he does not borrow or lend, begs; and if he does not beg, carries on some suspicious business. A nation within a nation, the Jews are sometimes made the victims of popular hatred; the usually gentle Russians sometimes rise in sudden wrath, and the newspapers report to us dreadful accounts of an assault and murder of Hebrews. Russian

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

They do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing a game and that we do it to shock them.

Nothing about sex ever shocks women. At least, men's kind of sex.

According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these days, and some of their reasons make sense. Who wants children growing up with the idea that stepmothers are wicked, ugly people are evil, women can get by on their beauty, and princesses are all white? At the same time, I worry about children who grow up thinking that every story has a happy ending and no one gets permanently hurt along the way.

Colonial wives had a reputation for being dowdy.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer.

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.

Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect and it is often rather a cowardly way.

I forebore to remark that women like me really expected very little - nothing, almost.