Quotes About Stereotypes

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

She didn't want to end up like some girls from her school, exhausted and pushing prams in their mid-twenties, financially dependent on husbands they seemed to despise.

ARE THESE PEOPLE SUCH FOOLS THAT THEY CAN'T COPE WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T DRESS LIKE THEM? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE SO CLEARLY NOT? DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF 'THOSE' WOMEN?

Perché questo vuol dire crescere in una piccola città: tutti pensano di sapere chi sei. Nell era la ragazza giudiziosa. La ragazza tranquilla. Quella che pianificava attentamente ogni dettaglio e a cui potevi dare l'incarico di innaffiare le piante o badare ai tuoi figli con la sicurezza che non sarebbe scappata con tuo marito né con quello di nessun'altra.

I thought about the fact that there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low. But I knew that already, didn't I?

First rule of Geek Club. There is no Geek Club.

assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers.

Once we were all the same, you know? Now they say I can never know what their problems are. Because I am rich. Somehow I am not allowed to have problems. Or they are strange around me, like I am somehow different person. Like the good things in my life are an insult to others.

Women, the clerk announced, would be allowed to leave several minutes before the men at lunchtime and at the end of the day in order to prepare meals, a fact which caused Beth to roll her eyes.

there seemed to be such a high cost to anything a woman chose to do with her life, unless she simply aimed low.

Men expected women to be calm, collected, cooperative, and chaste. Eccentric conduct was frowned upon, and any female who got too far out of line could be in serious trouble. Virginia Culin Roberts, 'The Women Was Too Tough

When people tell me they don't believe in God, I usually ask, "What God don't you believe in?" They invariably go on to describe a God who is judgmental, vengeful, overbearing, unloving, or whimsical. "Oh, I don't believe in that God, either," I say.

Heck, I remember that I used to dress up to take an airplane flight; today, it looks homeless people fill up the planes.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

I'm going to tell you something," Ali said, "and I don't want you ever to forget it . . . Black men scare white men more than black men scare black men

Sonny Liston is America's curse. He is the black menace sprung from white racist stereotypes. And he likes it that way.

You can take the IAT yourself at ProjectImplicit.org

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

He'd never much cared for the need to believe one people were better than another. One on one, most of them seemed all right. It was only when you gathered any of them in groups they tended to be stupid.

Every writer he ever met was a drunk

stamping out prejudice inevitably means making everybody share the same prejudice

You all sound like you think sixty-five is old because the world tells you sixty-five is old," she admonished. "As a few years go by, you'll realize sixty-five is pretty young.