Quotes About Stereotypes

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

The more disgruntled the white people are, the happier they are to see me, that has to be it. I do really well in Boston, I do really well in Cleveland, I do really well in Philly, Jersey, certain parts of Florida. Places where there are really really aggressive white people tend to love me.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?

I don't even like wrestling really small guys a lot of the time. It just feels phony.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

If I put up a hot photo, people think I am only interested in doing raunchy roles or special songs.

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.