Quotes About Stereotypes

Whether it's in Jobcentres or in Whitehall, young people are constantly coming up against a narrative that portrays them as lazy and feckless, when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

Women often get ignored from main narrative, especially in films.

For a long time, images of black men with big lips and a round head were used to make us feel inferior, but it doesn't need to be like that, we don't need to self'loathe. We can change the narrative.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

Samson is talking to a bum on the street.) A guy stops near here every morning with a truck-picks up guys to do yard work, but he only takes Mexicans. Says whites are too lazy....I'm not lazy, the bum said. I earned a degree in philosophy. I'll give you a dollar, Samson said I'm having trouble finding work in my field. (The bum replied)

She snapped out, Why is it that if there are many children, the man is potent, but if the marriage is childless, the woman is infertile?

It seemed all Englishmen imagined one had to attend Oxford, dress in black and breathe the air of Britain to understand the workings of business. Business, he could have informed them, varied not a whit anywhere in the world.

Teachers as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades—and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better and are more amenable to classroom routines than boys.

Most little girls don't want to play with trucks, as almost any parent can attest. Including me: when my son gave his daughter Eliza a toy train, she placed it in a baby carriage and covered it with a blanket so it could get some sleep.

Feminist Gloria Steinem has called research on sex differences "anti-American." She says, "It is what is keeping us down." According to Gloria Allred, such research simply should not be done. "This is harmful and dangerous to our daughters' lives, to our mothers' lives, and I am very angry about it." Feminist critics have a term for neurologists who study sex differences: "neurosexists.

Question: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Feminist answer: That's not funny.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.