Quotes About Stereotypes

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

And in those days, girls like Sadie were conditioned to ignore the sexist generally, not just in gaming—it wasn't cool to point such things out. If you wanted to play with the boys, they couldn't be afraid of saying things around you.

With his sweet, roundish face, light-colored eyes, and mix of white and Asian features, Sam looked almost exactly like an anime character. Astro Boy, or one of the wisecracking little brothers of manga.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. Sunday

Su madre siempre le dice que por culpa de las novelas es incapaz de apreciar a los hombres de carne y hueso, observación que Amelia se toma como un insulto, ya que da a entender que solo lee libros con héroes románticos clásicos.

A man puts on a suit and a tie and an American flag pin, and that's the end of the story. He is a politician. A female politician's appearance is always a disputed territory, a matter of discussion.

Las cubiertas son las cenicientas de las editoriales. Les echamos la culpa de todo.

The white man" represented "civilization" as a single human being defined equally by his whiteness and by his maleness.

As in Europe, the typical American witch-suspect was a woman, frequently middle-aged with few or no children and a reputation as a difficult personality.

That's pretty much our story: Melanie and Scarlett, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane, the soccer moms and the vampire slayers. All of them are more complicated than they let on.

The male view of why women had to be kept out of the public world was basically that they just weren't up to it.

Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because "girls aren't strong enough to pull teeth.

Feminist' simply means someone who supports equal rights and opportunities for women. But there have been very few periods in American history when it didn't wind up being linked to images of cranky man-haters in unfashionable footwear.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

We've all done this, because we're so mature. You see a cow on the side of the road, stick your head out the window and go "Mooo!" Like we expect the cow to think, "Hey, there's another cow, driving that car! How can he afford that?"

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

His friend smiled. "You know what they say about psychiatrists, Frost. They only go into the business to find someone crazier than they are.

stereotypes are such dangerous stuff; they narrow your frame of mind, and shape your reference and behavior.