Quotes About Stereotypes

I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.

It is not easy to be a woman, is it? Especially a spinster.

Have you noticed, Marius, she asked on one occasion, that the English tend to feel that if they talk loudly enough, the French will understand them? As if talking French were an affliction of the deaf?

It is applied exclusively to girls. Have you noticed? I know a few wild boys, and people generally think none the worse of them—boys will be boys. I have never heard any of them called hoydens.

Labels helped identify a person, perhaps, but they did not define him. Or her.

For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it.

we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.

You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. - Attributed to John H. Doc Holliday

Whenever we said 'they,' Mama told us to name two." Claudette divides the lump of cheese, handing half to Albert. "Mama said if you can't name two actual real people, then you're just being prejudiced. So name two peasants who hate us.

Mama said if you can't name two actual real people, then you're just being prejudiced. So name two peasants who hate us.

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy—getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff---get undercut by having to play football.

Maybe the girls in my gym class had been right all along, and poetry was a trick on smart people—a bunch of hooey, fawned over by whining fops of the most stick-up-the-ass variety.

Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.

No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals.

In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound, or the silk sweep of Mamie Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenue...

I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains.

I do not know what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains

Female monkeys, unaware that they are slaves to cultural stereotypes, like things with faces. Male monkeys, unaware that they are doing the bidding of human sexists, like things with moving parts.

Men should not care less what women wear so long as they are smooth-skinned, slim, young, healthy and generally nubile.

What was his daughter doing, he thought to himself, going out with a vegetarian? Those vitamin-deficient panty-waists really couldn't be trusted. It just wasn't right, in his view. It went against Man's early instincts as a hunter. OK, so someone had to stay back and tend to the potatoes and the cress or whatever, but Titus doubted very much that anyone who was fit and strong enough to stalk elk and bison would volunteer.

Gary has made the classic mistake of equating precise cheekbones, perfect breasts, and a vague association with philanthropy as the signs of a good woman.