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Quotes About Stereotypes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
~ Unknown
In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.
~ Kirsten Dunst
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
~ Horace Greeley
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
~ Michael Stipe
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~ Margaret Mead
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'di..', and 'Colon'.
~ Chris Rock
Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
~ George Mikes
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
~ Billy Crystal
You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither!
~ Drew Carey
Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it's easy - you simply look under the kilt, and if it's a quarter-pounder, you know it's a McDonald's.
~ Billy Connolly
People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job?
~ Dick Cheney
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
~ Goldie Hawn
It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.
~ Truman Capote
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
~ Somerset Maugham
When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
~ George Burns
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
~ Rita Rudner
Why do people say 'Grow some balls?' Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
~ Betty White
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
~ Elayne Boosler
If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they cant have a headache and sex at the same time?
~ Unknown
Men are fast to call lady's whore but must faster to put their manhood in one.
~ Unknown
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
~ Terry Pratchett
Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b
~ Bertrand Russell
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
~ Tyra Banks
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
~ Geena Davis