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Quotes About Stereotypes

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
~ Thom Gunn
I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.
~ Retta
I'm showbiz-fat. It's so funny, in all the reviews that I read, no one wants to use the word 'fat' as an adjective. So I have to deal with 'dimpled-kneed,' 'hefty,' 'plus-sized,' the most obscure words you can imagine.
~ Marissa Jaret Winokur
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
~ Karl Philipp Moritz
I hate generalizing. But what I've seen, from what I've observed, fundraising's an issue for women candidates.
~ Ronna McDaniel
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
~ Caitlin Moran
People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
I'm fascinated by people's obsession with how they look and how humans really do judge you within the first few seconds of meeting you.
~ Poppy
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
~ Whitney Cummings
I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
~ Halima Aden
You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.
~ Cristina Saralegui
I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.
~ Mustafa Ali
People are lazy when they cast. It's natural to think of the most obvious fit to your character.
~ Soni Razdan
When I'm out and about, I never get chatted up by women in an obvious way.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.
~ Charlie Brooker
Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
~ Ursula Burns
There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.
~ Granit Xhaka
Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
~ Loni Love
You men are a bunch of god-damned women.
~ Norman Mailer
Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear "shop-girls" spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth Avenue as "marriage-girls.
~ O. Henry
Por qué nos inquieta un hombre bañado en lágrimas? Una mujer que llora puede considerarse una parte excepcional pero conmovedora y digna de pena, de nuestra vida cotidiana, la acogemos con sinceridad y cariño. Pero ante un hombre que llora nos llena un sentimiento de desesperación. Es como si para él hubiera llegado el fin del mundo o como si él hubiera llegado al límite de lo que podía hacer.
~ Orhan Pamuk
When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair.
~ Orhan Pamuk
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
~ Oscar Wilde
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
~ Oscar Wilde