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Quotes About Stereotypes

Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.'
~ Ronny Chieng
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
~ Pete Townshend
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
~ Oscar Wilde
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
~ Charlotte Bronte
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.
~ Jim Costa
Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.
~ Doug Benson
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
~ Frank Pittman
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them
~ Peter Ustinov
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
~ Albert Einstein
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
~ Annette Messager
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
~ Bette Davis
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
~ Margaret Mead
Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
~ Moss Hart
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
~ Donald Glover
All women are inferior to men.
~ Garry Kasparov
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
~ Bertrand Russell
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
~ Edna Ferber
The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.
~ Gene Simmons