Quotes About Stereotypes

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the word "teeny-weeny.

Although, of course, a fat man isn't nearly as pathetic as a fat woman. Her

Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

Housework?" Logan blinked the way that men tended to blink when women brought up frivolous domestic issues in serious settings.

I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful," continued Jane. "But it's like it's the most shameful thing for a woman to be.

C'est à la mère de surveiller son enfant. Et tant pis pour le féminisme. Pam était capable de hurler sur les toits pour défendre l'égalité des salaires, mais toutes les femmes savaient qu'on ne pouvait pas compter sur les hommes en société. Il était scientifiquement prouvé qu'ils étaient incapables de faire deux choses à la fois!

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.

Both women and nature are protected, restricted, objectified, idealized, and made passive.

I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.

So she settled for the truth. "I think you a man." "Is that an insult?" "No." Anything male is dragged around by its breeches, and she holds the string attached to them.

Mi sento dire spesso: «Eh, ma ormai siete dappertutto», come se fossimo una specie di epidemia. Facciamo qualsiasi mestiere, possiamo conquistare ogni carica, in fondo. Siamo protagoniste delle pubblicità e dei film. Ma se è per questo, di immagini femminili è piena da sempre anche la pornografia. Non è la quantità a fare la visibilità. È la considerazione, è l'autorevolezza, sono i ruoli che ricopriamo.

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

And now I am engulfed in this new flavor, so different from the light but humorless flavor of the Anapa and the thick bitter taste of the Mumbanyo, this rich deep resonant complex flavor that I am only getting my first sips of and yet how do I explain these differences to an average American who will take one look at the photographs and see black men & women with bones through their noses and lump them in a pile marked Savages?

No one will actually come out and say this nowadays, but women are at their best when they're writing about men: their husbands, their fathers, their lost loves. It's when they start writing about themselves that they become unreadable.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed!

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

The result is a constant, unintelligent elaboration of the Chinaman as a stage fiction, which is as childish as it is untrue and with which the West is so familiar, and a continuation of the early Portuguese sailors' tradition minus the sailors' obscenity of language, but with essentially the same sailors' obscenity of mind.

If you really care about these issues and want to make a difference, you must not use race as a proxy for poverty or poverty as a proxy for race. They intersect and overlap, but to really understand the health of this country, you have to be more sophisticated than assuming that only poor Blacks are affected by this crisis. Look deeper, think differently.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

Why were all the handsome ones always such bastards?

whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.