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Quotes About Stereotypes

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
~ Helen Rowland
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never judge a country by its politicians.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
~ Will Rogers
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
~ Dan Quayle
The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.
~ Nyla Ali Khan
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
~ Eugene McCarthy
I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
~ Andrej Pejic
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
~ Jeff Greenfield
He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.
~ Wendy Morgan
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.
~ Jim Norton
No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.
~ Argus Hamilton
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
~ Tracey Ullman
I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.
~ Miriam Margolyes
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
~ Will Rogers
De Nederlandse literatuur wordt helaas niet alleen door de Nederlanders zelf voor onbeduidend gehouden.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
Maleness is [...] a limited and subjective position rather than the standard from which ribs are removed
~ William Alexander
female soldiers n. males with female features During the war in the Persian Gulf, the Saudi government rejected the idea of female soldiers coming to their defense (women make up one-tenth of the U.S. forces), so it designated the women soldiers "males with female features.
~ William D. Lutz
That's what makes me really think that women can never amount to anything in art. They keep all their appointments, and fulfil all their duties just as if they didn't know anything about art.
~ William Dean Howells