Quotes About Stereotypes

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic."

Avoid not only mustaches, but also sideburns and chin whiskers. Men with facial hair are seldom trusted.

Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English! ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English.

One of the things women have to get out of their mindset is the notion of what a bitch is. A bitch is nice. She's sweet as a Georgia peach. She smiles and she is feminine. She just doesn't make decisions based on the fear of losing a man.

Many women talk a lot out of nervousness-which is something that men will often perceive as insecurity.

when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don't hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings.

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

Mum—my real mum, not Mrs. Cornish—always told me that men hate it when women bring up their menses. I thought it was ridiculous. They love to moan about their own aches and pains, why should they begrudge us a little complaining about ours?

Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.

Video games are bad for? That's what they said about rock'n'roll.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

I wish we hadn't picked up the idea that you were a failure if you didn't have a man because then you would be without status and protection.

That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn't feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.

Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74]

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.