Quotes About Stereotypes

Being labeled is like being told, "Everybody has a group they belong to, and if you don't go in the group, society will hate you either way..."

Being labeled feels like being coloured in with a highlighter pen. All actions feel like they draw attention, and none are viewed as sane.

I swear its so hard being pretty, you get more people that don't like you for no reason, & more people who judge you before they know you.

Your known by guys for being pretty and girls hate you for it.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

Too many good girls single, too many hoes taken.

Just because a single-mom usually can't be bothered to spend much time on her make-up doesn't mean that she has given up on romance.

People don't always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I'm afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.

Those jeans're so tight I can see your religion

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)

I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise. In any case, you can't blame a gay for trying, he said, smiling a smile utterly unlike my own.

Japanese American, she corrected me. Not Japanese. And Vietnamese American, not Vietnamese. You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.

And even if we are inscrutable, what does that make white people? Are white people ever referred to as inscrutable? No, you would say that a white person who is hard to read has a poker face, which has a positive connotation, a strategic one, suggesting a careful withholding of information, whereas we are just inscrutable because you white people believe that we always have something to hide

I lay down and imagined we slumbered like soldiers even though the only place near Chinatown where one could buy bunk beds was the children's section of gaudy furniture stores, overseen by Mexicans or people who looked like Mexicans. I could not tell anyone from the Southern Hemisphere apart but assumed they would take no offense, given that they themselves called me Chino to my face.

White people love you, don't they? They only like me. They think I'm a dainty little china doll with bound feet, a geisha who's ready to please. But I don't talk enough for them to love me, or at least I don't talk the right way. I can't put on the whole sukiyaki-and-sayonara show they love, the chopsticks in the hair kind of mumbo jumbo, all that Suzie Wong bullshit, like every white man who comes along is William Holden or Marlon Brando, even if he looks like Mickey Rooney.

If I'm unreadable—if all these Asians you refer to are unreadable—perhaps we are only unreadable to those who do not know how to read. Semantics—

The average person of any race was not good-looking, but while the ugliness of others only confirmed prejudices, the homeliness of one's own people was always comforting.

A learned woman is a lost woman.

A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.

There are two kinds of women who like to talk a lot; the married women and the single ones.

You can complain about the house where the husband is the wife.

You can't tell from a man's clothes how much he makes: look at his wife.

He approved the fact that Marie Louise had never read a novel: novels, especially those by women, falsified life by giving too much place to love.

Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.