Quotes About Stereotypes

I suffer from the girl next door, it is where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

The truth is, men make terrible pigs

Humillar a las mujeres parece ser el pasatiempo predilecto de los poetas

They never listened. The truth is, men make terrible pigs.

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but who says blondes prefer gentlemen?

well. The term "frocky" was used a lot as a derogatory description for women that Eileen and Stephanie thought were dressing just to please male egos. Yet

Middle aged women are such easy prey, like they're supposed to walk around with eyes averted, hanging their heads in shame at their wreckage. (Bellamy)

younger women as they pass us in the street, with their cigarettes, their makeup, their tight-seamed dresses, their tiny handbags, their smooth, washed hair, and we turn away, we put down our heads, we keep on pushing the pram up the hill.

You think I don't know what you're doing? This is a typical guy stunt. Protect the helpless female, lead the bad guy away and send her scurrying for help." He put a hand on her cheek. "If he caught up to us and something happened to you… I don't know what I'd do." Her lips trembled, though she tried to look angry. "Macho garbage.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

Ce pays cultive la canne à sucre et les préjugés.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

I remember once being asked by an American, "Does everyone in your country still sleep in trees?" And I replied, "Yes." He was overjoyed (or at least seemed so) at meeting someone who had slept in a tree. But when I added that in our capital city of Ouagadougou the ambassador of the United States sleeps in the tallest tree, he walked away confused and a bit suspicious. Americans are bred to expect the rest of the world to be underdeveloped. The

Je ne voudrais pas être une femme ici. je ne voudrais pas porter en permanence le poids de ces regards, leurs violences multiples, attisées par la frustration. Pour la première fois, je réalise que l'acte le plus banal d'une femme en Algérie se charge d'emblée de symboles et d'héroïsme tant l'animosité masculine est grande, maladive.

Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

Boys don't cry but real men do.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?