Quotes About Stereotypes

I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles." Mandy tilted her head sideways for a second. "Makes as much sense as anything else." Sophie nodded. "Men do the lifting and women do the thinking. That sounds fair. I suppose God could have planned it that way.

we played Indian music—grass dance songs and powwow stuff—the marshals thought these were our death songs and got all worked up, expecting a banzai charge. One

The general rule is that whoever thinks, sings, acts, and speaks Indian is a skin, a full-blood, and whoever acts and thinks like a white man is a half-blood or breed, no matter how Indian he looks.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

tokenism does not change stereotypes or social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see

She never wanted Robbie to feel entitled because he was a boy, and she never wanted Vanessa to feel limited because she was a girl.

You don't have to be Southern to have good manners. And you don't have to be a Yankee to make a total ass of yourself.

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked. Yes, but their mothers are blonde.

Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did.

Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

Por qué lo que era inteligente para Martín era feo y peligroso para Catalina? Si Martín podía, Catalina podía y yo era Martín y Catalina al tiempo, de donde se infería, aunque costara de entender, que lo que un hombre podía poner en ejecución también podía ponerlo una mujer.

Why is it that men reduce themselves to one-liners and bad movie quotes whenever they get into a fight?" said Parker. "Is there some kind of script they're supposed to follow when they get to this point? Or does the raging testosterone just shut down their higher brain functions?

Death to the pale-penised man-monster! Death to the pendulous-breasted harridan!

I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.