Quotes About Stereotypes

I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

They're always wrong in the movies.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.