Quotes About Stereotypes

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love.

No good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn. But particularly Gwladys.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

sabía también, si se llama saber a esa certeza absoluta que se va adquiriendo a fuerza de repensar lo mismo, y que las viejas del pueblo llaman manías, que después de los 30, un hombre no puede hacerse amigo de una mujer. Que hay mucho sexo alborotado envuelto en la relación, mucho romanticismo a destiempo, mucho fantasma entre falda y pantalón para que las cosas funcionen.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

To the people in Creede I am intelligent, suspiciously sophisticated and elitist to the point of being absurd. To the people at UC Davis I am quaint, a little slow on the uptake and far too earnest to even believe.

I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.

When I tell her about the expression "MILF" ("Mom I'd like to Fuck"), she thinks it's hilarious. There's no French-language equivalent. In France, there's no a priori reason why a woman wouldn't be sexy just because she happens to have children. It's not uncommon to hear a Frenchman say that being a mother gives a woman an appealing air of plentitude (happiness and fulness of spirit).

Part of me just wants to force-feed these women some spoonfuls of fatty pâté. But another part of me is dying to know their secrets. Having kids who sleep well, wait and don't whine surely helps them stay so calm. But there's got to be more to it. Are they secretly struggling with anything? Where's their belly fat? If this is all a façade, what's behind it? Are French mothers really perfect? And if so, are they happy?

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

The world is full of high-handed women,' he complained. 'Certainly Scotland is,' agreed Gil.

But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work. What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

I think it's the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.

Mostly they just confused us with skinwalkers. Since walkers and skinwalkers are both Native American shapeshifters, I can sort of understand it. Especially since I'm pretty sure the walker label came from some dumb white person who couldn't tell the difference.

There's a lot of truth in the adage that all cars named after animals are lemons.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.