Quotes About Stereotypes

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much

Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

Her hair was a dirty color that was too dark to be blond, her chin was big and her eyes were small.

Nancy Rue has once more proven that Christianity doesn't necessary arrive in a double-breasted suit or wearing pearls. Sometimes it roars in on a Harley, packing more punch than a three-part sermon.

They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.

Just as putting a gender on a being limits in some way the way we think about the being. By putting any kind of label on anything, we limit it.

We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not even that we're all the same.

Poco tempo fa sono andato a pranzo con un amico. Si è messo a piangere. Voleva costruirsi una barca e salpare per la Tasmania. Io gli ho riso in faccia. Una settimana dopo gli è venuta un'emorragia cerebrale. Non siamo capaci di imparare niente dagli stereotipi che ci circondano, neppure che siamo tutti uguali.

What the hell does the Jewish Museum know about Guatemalan pricks? This particular prick isn't even circumcised.

Aren't there male protagonists who race into danger? And I bet you'd call them brave for doing exactly the same thing that a woman gets labeled 'Too Stupid To Live'.

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse.

No way. I'm a guy. We can't let chicks drive. It's a form of castration." "Well, pick up your balls. We're leaving.

Liz: "Talking is overrated." Gavin: "Now you sound like a guy." Liz: "That's why you like me." Gavin: "Because you're a guy?

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

If you act too young, people say you're going through your second childhood. If you act too old, they think you're getting senile and smother you with kindness.

it occurred to me that professors must get so they unconsciously act the way people think professors ought to act;

Deification dehumanizes women as much as its polar opposite, demonization. Both deny women their ordinary humanity.

Be afraid of bombs on the metro. Be afraid of bombs on airplanes. Be afraid of mass murders lurking in the dark. Oh, but don't be afraid of the wrong people (brown and/or Muslim) because if you do, you become worse than the terrorists... you become a racist.

If you believe the media, all Trump voters are mouth-breathers who can barely sign their name.

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.