Quotes About Stereotypes

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society; we have a hard time with the feminine.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

If I look smart and feel confident, other people's bigoted assumptions have less power to harm me.

I used to write three- and four-part harmonies for my YWCA club in high school. We used to win all the song contests. But people would say, 'Look who her father is. He probably did the whole thing.'

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

Whenever I go to a new team the jabs about being a Harvard guy are always more prevalent. This is mainly because people don't know much about me other than being the Harvard guy that did well on his Wonderlic test. The more time I spend with people, the less the Harvard stuff comes up.

I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?

I always hated that clothing was gendered when I was young.

The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America a black guy, the Internet is filled with hateful comments and people saying, 'That's not what Captain America is supposed to look like.'

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Just because I'm a girl and it's pop doesn't mean I have to write about love and heartbreak.

I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.