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Quotes About Stereotypes

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times
~ Unknown
God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him
~ Unknown
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.
~ Unknown
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think.
~ Unknown
He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always though Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always thought Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
I have found more fist bumps and handshakes and high fives until someone shouts, wassup my nigga, because drunk white kids think imitating black people is hilarious.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.
~ Vasily Grossman
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
~ Vera Farmiga
Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.
~ Victoria Alexander
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
~ Natalie Dormer
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
~ Voltaire
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
~ Vivien Leigh
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
~ Naomi Wolf
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
~ Rosanna Arquette
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
~ Selma Blair
Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.
~ Susane Colasanti
The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
~ Candice Bergen
To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
~ Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?
~ Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
~ Susan Sontag
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
~ Diane Kruger