Quotes About Stereotypes

It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels. - Harry Dresden

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

It's like gender trumps ideas

Perhaps all young girls should receive voice-deepening instruction, as they once had learned how to iron men's white oxford-cloth shirts and walk with books on their heads.

Whenever I hear about the woman's trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin'-says-lovin'-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level

I get so sick of people asking me, "Do you work?" Of course I work! I've got five children under ten—I work twenty four hours a day! But of course they mean, "Do you work for pay, outside your home?" Sometimes I hear myself say, "No, I don't work," and I think, "That's a complete lie!

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. [ Existence (1975)]

Men succeed. Women get married. Men fail. Women get married. Men enter monasteries. Women get married. Men start wars. Women get married. Men stop them. Women get married.

I was surprised. It's not often that a woman receives an apology from a man, especially not in such circumstances. I am far more used to being told: You need to learn to take a joke, or; Why must you be so sensitive? Little girls are taught the lesson almost from the cradle. Boys will be boys. It's a man's world. It's because he likes you.

To be a woman, I have learnt, is to be the constant recipient of unwanted pieces of male advice.

That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart... That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy, Shay said. Just holier-than-thou.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,wow, check out the brain on that babe.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

There's a difference between bad bi...es and ghetto bi...es.

A butch talks dirty to a women and its sexual harassement. A women talks dirty to a butch and its $3.95 a min.

You say high maintenance like its a bad thing!