Quotes About Stereotypes

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Our speech accurately reflects the prejudices of the ruling group. Since the rulers and the rich and the educated (who directed language) generally lived in cities, we developed such words as "villain," which meant a rustic; "heathen" and "pagan," which also indicated those who dwelt in the country; "boor," which meant a farmer; and many other such words which downgraded rural inhabitants.

Some of these types, like the Persians and Ottoman Turks, are largely white; others, like the southern Indians and Yemenite Arabs, are largely black; while still others, like the Himalayan and Central Asian peoples, have much yellow blood.

I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an extension of their masculinity; they have little fantasy scenarios going all the time - races, chases, and dramatic combat with other drivers. Females, on the other hand, generally seem to view driving as something you do to get somewhere. I know, crazy.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Regardless of where they come from, immigrants learn that, in America, lighter is always better, darker is always worse and black is worst. Little time passes before immigrants become prejudiced against African-Americans. This, too, is a kind of assimilation, and one that Israel Zangwill's idealistic vision never anticipated.

All men think that a woman walking alone at night is a whore.

I smile sympathetically at a young man wearing a turban who looks to be as comfortable as the only husband at a Mary Kay party. Three years post–9/ 11 and they're still being treated like social pariahs. But, hey, African-Americans have endured three hundred plus years of it and all we did was take a boat ride.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

The thing is that many of their most passionate moral stances, as far as Cal can see, have to do with what words you should and shouldn't use for people, based on what problems they have, what race they are, or who they like to sleep with. While Cal agrees that you should call people whatever they prefer to be called, he considers this to be a question of basic manners, not of morals.

many of their most passionate moral stances, as far as Cal can see, have to do with what words you should and shouldn't use for people, based on what problems they have, what race they are, or who they like to sleep with. While Cal agrees that you should call people whatever they prefer to be called, he considers this to be a question of basic manners, not of morals.

They say boys wreck your house and girls wreck your head, and it's the truth.

The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.

they assume that the overly macho demeanor of the Super Thug is a true representation of a real man. The

Throughout history, men have primarily been valued for their game, and women have primarily been valued for their physical attributes.

The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby's pajamas for her pregnant sister. "Men," the customer said. "Who can understand the way their minds work?" Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn't laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.