Quotes About Stereotypes

Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plomera diplomada y no agarran un destornillador ni que se esté inundando la casa.

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying.

Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Vrouwen hebben niet genoeg verstand om optimaal te profiteren van het feminisme.

Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.

Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad.

When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it.

Her hands were large and knuckley and calloused, made to hold a rifle, not a needle.

And I ask you—a woman, weak in body, weak in will—can she rule, with all the frailty of her sex?

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

Oh for goodness sake. Why do boys always have to talk about their feelings all the time? It's so gross. - Tamara

If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you're in pain when you're in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.

You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they're wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they're being really stupid.

Why did she think tall people couldn't be crazy? Because they looked like they ruled the world?

A woman would be more intelligent, obviously.

Her name was Susi, which seemed to indicate a worrying lack of judgment. Why didn't she call herself Susan? "Susi" sounded like a pole dancer. The other problem with Susi was that she appeared to be about twelve years old, and quite naturally, being twelve, she didn't know how to apply eyeliner properly. It was

He was all smug about how he'd negotiated flexible hours so he could continue being a hands-on dad, the dad his own father never got to be, and didn't he just lap up all the praise he got for being such an involved father, and laugh sympathetically, but enjoyably, over the fact that Clementine never got any praise for being an involved mother?

Maybe she was sexist.

Change your own tyre, ya big fucken' pussy!' Then he'd closed the window, grinned sheepishly, and said, 'Don't tell your mother.