Quotes About Stereotypes

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

Sometimes I think bimbo is just another word men made up so they could feel superior to women who are better at survival than they are.

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.

Come on, Ted. I'm not exactly the type to be a rich man's bimbo." "That's true." A world of compassion softened his voice. "Bimbos are generally good-hearted women who are pleasant to be around." "Spoken from experience, I'm sure. By the way, you may be God Almighty on the golf course, but you're a lousy dancer. Let me lead.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.