Quotes About Stereotypes

IT IS VERY difficult for an ordinary heterosexual to imagine that an ordinary homosexual is in fact not, deep inside, a repressed heterosexual who needs to try harder with women or just get his act together.

new antisemitism with its German forerunner is its irrational, self-contradictory character. Jews were hated in Germany because they were rich and because they were poor, because they were capitalists and because they were communists, because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere, because they believed in a primitive faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards. The

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I / I am a girl who feels too American for love...they say I'm a child of an AT&T café olé telephone-commercial future where your nose is not flat enough to offend/and not pointy enough to cut the glass ceiling.

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.

We tend to automatically associate hearty meat dishes with men and lighter salads and sweets with women, and these stereotypes are replicated in cultures as different as France and Japan.

What is so damaging about our gendered approach to food is that it encourages both boys and girls to feed themselves in ways that go against what their bodies require. We have got things the wrong way round. It is girls more than boys who need the most haemoglobin-boosting foods. And boys more than girls are lacking in salad and vegetables. Girl food and boy food are dangerous nonsense that prevents us from seeing the real problems of feeding boys and girls.

But almost no one speaks of building up girls - these delicate soufflé-nibbling creatures who ought to be able to survive on air and compliments. Instead, a great focus is placed on building up their brothers, stoking them with dangerous delusions about how much food they need. In the current food environment, the overfeeding of boys is no more helpful than the underfeeding of girls.

Women have a special relationship with chocolate mostly because our culture tells them to. It goes back to the old claptrap about sweet treats being for 'ladies', while savoury tastes for men.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else.