Quotes About Stereotypes

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here . . . it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Women give more than men; young people more than their elders; people who appear to be of the most modest means seem more generous than the affluent looking.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair.

Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggling young lady, it is not the giggling young lady so accosted that is offended by the action, but rather the granite-faced dowager, standing unnoticed by her side, who is. It is she who makes derogatory remarks concerning dirty old men, and is quite likely to attack him with an umbrella.

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

If men had their way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.

You are going to be judged harshly because success in women is not easily forgiven.

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara?

Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.

Si hubieras tenido el pelo tan negro como lo tienes ahora, los patrones habrian tirado la caja en la basura.

The tradition of industrious women is fundamental in my country, where sloth is a male privilege. It is forgivable in men, just as alcoholism is tolerated among them, because it is assumed that these are unavoidable biological characteristics: if you're born that way, you're born that way. . . . That isn't true of women, you understand.

Captain Longfellow—who, like most Englishmen, was kinder to animals than to people

until women shortened their dresses and their hair and stopped wearing corsets, it made no difference if they studied medicine or had the right to vote, because they would not have the strength to do it […]

Hay una cierta soltura en la feminidad, dijeron. A los hombres los entrenan para reprimir las emociones, están limitados por la camisa de fuerza de la masculinidad.

The Belascos' garden remained deaf to the defamatory propaganda campaign against the Japanese, who were accused of unfair competition against American farmers and fishermen, threatening white women's virtue with their insatiable lust, and corrupting American society by their Oriental, anti-Christian ways.

El racismo se le pasó antes de una semana cuando averiguó que en los Estados Unidos nosotros no somos blancos, sino hispánicos y ocupamos el peldaÅ"o más bajo de la escala social.

Nada de cíclopes, ni gigantes, ni hombres con cuatro brazos y cabeza de perro, pero encontraréis con seguridad seres primitivos y malvados, especialmente entre los castellanos»

Girls are denied the right to be angry and to thrash about.

Why had that woman tried to give me her baby? It was a girl. No one wants a girl! the driver answered.

Everyone thinks Australia and New Zealand MMA fighters don't have that wrestling base, whereas a lot of Americans and other countries have, with them being able to do wrestling at high-school levels.