Quotes About Stereotypes

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

But when he said he couldn't shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of sense to tell him that Hermione couldn't dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut. Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction.

If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase "roast beef and pudding".

She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.

He rolled his eyes. Women. And yet, this was Billie. The least womanly woman of

dark Africa and take up cannibalism

He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same.

I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, about who we should be like.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

I have this A-line figure. It starts with my face being small and increases as it goes down. Actually South Indians have this problem. Small face. Big hips.

As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

As far as the industries go, in the North, they think I'm a South Indian actress; down South, I've always been thought of as a Bombay girl. I guess it's sort of an identity crisis, even though I'd like to belong to all the industries.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

Kamasutra shaped my career in every possible way. It enhanced the whole sexism quotient that I had come with. It made me famous and infamous.

You cannot write-off someone and consider them inferior in any way based on how much money they make.

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.