Quotes About Stereotypes

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Everyone knew that Syrians were 'natural businessmen, and the greediest of mortals'.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

differences in behavior arise not because of differences in how men and women are, but in how men and women are treated. This is what the evidence shows: women are less likely to get useful feedback, their mistakes are judged more harshly and remembered longer, their behavior is scrutinized more carefully, and their colleagues are less likely to share vital information with them. When women speak, they're more likely to be interrupted or ignored.

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

Jeigu žmogus nekvestionuoja savo visuomen?s dogm? ir stereotip?, savo visuomen?s prietar? ir ?pro?i?, jis n?ra joks intelektualas. Jis gali b?ti krepšinio sirgalius.

Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys with insecurities who need big theories.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

If you weren't here, if you didn't live through the changes, if you didn't experience how the streets moved around at night or how people's personalities were subtly altered, if you didn't see the casual cruelty, the cheapening of human life, the way that easy stereotypes take hold of people... If you weren't there, you're never going to understand what it was like.

She was a young woman with that pink complexion which made Jimmy Chee wonder why the white men called Indians redskins.

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

I wish you would stick more closely to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough already.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

In some parts of North-east England, a man would rather kill himself overtaking on a blind bend at seventy miles an hour than drive a hundred yards behind a woman.