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Quotes About Stereotypes

You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.' 'You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling. That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed. 'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.
~ Barbara Pym
Whoever says that girls are kind has never lived among them.
~ barbara quick
I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
You know what they say, darling. When an older man seeks out younger women, he's virile. When an older woman seeks out younger men, she's desperate. Well, color me desperate, then. Because I want you, Harris Clayton. And I'm a woman who's very good at getting what she wants! Now come back to bed, darling, and let's forget all about everything except the way we feel.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~ Barbra Streisand
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
~ Barbra Streisand
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
~ barry dave ii
In a way, i feel sorry for boys. They're weak. You show them boobs or a butt and they just fall apart. But I feel sorry for girls, too. Because girls get screwed, even when they're not naked with a guy. Everyone hates girls--even other girls. I mean, "girl" is like an insult , you know? "That's so girly." "Stop being a girl." "You're like a little girl." Hey, you know what? I was a little girl once and I kicked ass . I was awesome.
~ Barry Lyga
Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.
~ Barry Lyga
Popular culture woefully underprepares us for actual therapy.
~ Barry Lyga
In 2005, Abercrombie & Fitch ran an ad campaign like this and sold T-shirts with mottos like "Who needs brains when you have these?" and "Blondes Are Adored, Brunettes Are Ignored.
~ Bart King
I don't trust short people. Their brains are too near their butt.
~ Bart King
you say that men are worse than women, as most people do, then of course we improve them by closer political
~ Bayard Taylor
Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.
~ Chanel West Coast
I get labelled a ditzy, blonde reality TV person, which is fine.
~ Georgia Toffolo
You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.
~ Joey Jordison
We had no clue that Cuba was not Marco Rubio. You get there, and everyone is Afro Cuban. And you start to realize, 'Where are the blonde, blue-eyed Cubans? Oh, they're all in Miami.'
~ Walshy Fire
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.
~ Alice Dreger
I used to think men were these idiots who just yelled at you on the street. But, part of my maturing was realizing that not all men are evil or monsters.
~ Jessica Williams
Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.
~ Rachel Lindsay
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
~ Peter Dinklage
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
~ George C. Wolfe
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
~ Nicole Holofcener