Quotes About Stereotypes

Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker.

If the African anthropologist made a point of examining European races "under the magnifying glass," he would be able to multiply them ad infinitum by grouping physiognomies into races and subraces as artificially as his European counterpart does with regard to Africa. He would, in turn, succeed in dissolving collective European reality into a fog of insignificant facts.

maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught.

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

The most efficient way to write a walk-on character is to use stereotypes, because the reader already has an impression. This, of course, depends on the length of your story and the importance of the character.

I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.

People want to help I woman alone. Or try to get in her pants.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

Why do people tell girls all this? You ask them to achieve things, but when they do, you can't handle it.

Frustrated, the educated middle class comes up with elitist theories like '90 per cent of Indians are stupid' or 'most voters are dumb'. None of this is true. The Indian voter is rational. However, he is rational within his own framework. It is important to grasp the demographics and social context of Indian voters.

considering this is a country where in-laws burn brides, they did seem like nice people. More

If you camp out at the store for a TV, you are a good consumer. If you camp out for social justice, you're a dirty hippie and will be pepper-sprayed.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

Aries are just drunk Capricorns.

How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?

Scorpios are the most misunderstood sign of the entire zodiac.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I really hate the implication that just because I'm small and female, I can't take care of myself.

I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

War either makes you a fascist or a fag.)

The Prophet spoke well of the Jews, Mukhayraq and Rif??ah, and his own wife ?afiyyah had Jewish relatives that she continued to visit on Sabbath. The idea that all Jews are evil is as absurd as the idea that all Muslims are terrorists.