Quotes About Stereotypes

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

Children should be judged on what they are -- a punishment for an early marriage.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

As dazed as I was, I still remembered to say I was from Portland instead of Beaverton, to avoid sounding like a hick—or having to endure any beaver-related attempts at humor.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The old debate on whether or not the Chinese or the Vietnamese made the best American food ran through my head. Everyone knew that you couldn't depend on a North American–run place, because gringos just aren't good at such things.

Es gibt ja keine verrücktere Idee, behauptete Tweedie weiter, als zu glauben, es gebe zwei Kategorien von Frauen: anständige und unanständige.

Alle Frauen sind im Grunde ihres Herzens Huren, erklärte er immer und immer wieder, wobei er seine traurigen, großen Augen rieb.

Women ain't good for nothing but to marry and work for men

It is quite incredible that men, whose desire for knowledge is unbounded in every other field, are really totally blind to these facts, that they are incapable of seeing women as they really are: with nothing else to offer but a vagina, two breasts,....

A GI fighting against Asian men is making war on an enemy no stronger than his college girl friends.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

And I didn't neglect to point out to my Yankee buddies that most of the high shooters in our platoon were Southern boys.

Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.

I once met a man of pro-football-sized proportions who saw something in my hesitation when I shook his hand that inspired him to tell me he was pained by the way small women looked at him when he passed them on the street—pained by the fear in their eyes, pained by the way they drew away—and as he told me this, tears welled up in his eyes.

When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When

Mother (over and over again): "What you have to understand about men is that they aren't like us. They don't have feelings." My

When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.