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Quotes About Stereotypes

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape ' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
~ Marilyn Monroe
Black men don't like to be called 'boys ' but women accept being called 'girls.'
~ Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
~ Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it
~ Marilyn Monroe
All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Whenever men appeared in breast stories, they were usually on the receiving, rather than the giving end.
~ Marilyn Yalom
Although I had long since stopped regarding myself as a Christian, I still thought of Christians as being basically decent, tolerant easy-going types like myself, while Muslims I'd always thought of as, well, let's say a bit prone to fundamentalism.
~ Marina Lewycka
Ja, Len. Das Land geht vor die Hunde. Und die Ausländer und die Wellensittiche sind schuld daran." Er rieb sich die Stirn. "Warum die Wellensittiche, Bert?" "Warum die Ausländer, Len?" Ich grinste. "Sie können nicht gleichzeitig Sozialschmarotzer sei und uns bei den Löhnen unterbieten.
~ Marina Lewycka
Somebody had written: MEN, which was crossed out and replaced with LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A PENIS. Under that, the word WOMEN had also been crossed out and replaced with VAGINAL AMERICANS.
~ Unknown
Blondes are the girlfriend, brunete is the femme fatale, but the heroine, she's the redheaded girl.
~ Unknown
No redheads, though, are plain.
~ Unknown
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
~ Unknown
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
~ Marissa Mayer
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
~ Marissa Mayer
You don't know nothing about me. Or the life I've had. You're so quick to judge, like all the other women. Women are the worst, you know. Worse than men. I think it's because, secretly, they all know in their hearts they could be me.
~ Unknown
They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.
~ Unknown