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Quotes About Stereotypes

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
~ Anita Loos
The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...
~ James Woods
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I wonder if you fully understand just how very little love there is in this world for Jewish people. I don't mean in Germany, either, under the Nazis. I mean in run-of-the-mill Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Nice Guy, who otherwise you and I consider perfectly harmless. Nathan, it is there. I guarantee you it is there. I know it is there. I have seen
~ Philip Roth
Something inside me recoiled as I heard her repeat the clichéd comments from her visitors. Is Christianity supposed to make a sufferer feel even worse?
~ Philip Yancey
Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual chastity rather than spiritual awakening to an international philosophy.
~ Philippa Gregory
They don't like to think of women in power, women as leaders.
~ Philippa Gregory
Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless
~ Philippa Gregory
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.
~ Pico Iyer
Ich begreife nicht, ich ertrage nicht, dass man einen Menschen nicht nach dem beurteilt, was er ist, sondern nach der Gruppe, der er zufällig angehört.
~ Primo Levi
Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't think so, Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.
~ Rachel Caine
She keeps asking me where we're going. Yeah, another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere. That's not true! It is, he said. I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're- Closed in, Michael said. Trapped, Shane added. Idiots, Claire finished.
~ Rachel Caine
One thing you learn early growing up a girl--people always talk, whatever you do,' Glain said. 'What bliss it must be to be male.
~ Rachel Caine
Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap." "You're serious." "Really." "What do you talk about?" Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys." Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care.
~ Rachel Caine
He loped off down the hall, and she felt a pure burst of fury. Boys. Why were they always such dumbasses?
~ Rachel Caine
One thing you learn early growing up a girl—people always talk, whatever you do," Glain said.
~ Rachel Caine
Some say that women should not read, for they may be led astray into impurity, as if our women are not fit guardians of their own worthiness.
~ Rachel Caine
You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint—ask yourself who wrote them.
~ Rachel Cohn
A woman's body, said the world, was a prison in which her mind must wither.
~ Rachel Kadish
Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.
~ Dean Koontz
I'm referring to feelings! Women aren't afraid to face their feelings. Men are so terrified of emotion they hold it inside until they're totally bent out of shape.
~ Debbie Macomber
Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women.
~ Debbie Macomber
Men have a hard time just dealing with a simple cold. If God had left procreation up to the male of the species, humanity would've died out with Adam.
~ Debbie Macomber
He's a man, after all. They want to know what they believe they need to know, which is minimal because they are raw, uncivilized, unrefined animals. They talk endlessly about themselves and puff up their chests. Give him the basics, off he goes.
~ Debbie Macomber