Quotes About Stereotypes

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

when such things happened it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The only thing to do was to persuade him, as early as possible, to marry a nice girl, and then trust her to look after him.

women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.

They all said the way to a man's heart was through his asshole.

Real men don't moisturise.

Ay que ver qué Hola y qué Zara Home os estáis volviendo los maricones. Digo, los gays.

It is a performance of blackness that whites want, not the real life of being black. They still want it, I think.

And he would have been most surprised if anyone had told him he was prejudiced, it being the nature of a prejudice that those who possess it have no idea that it is prejudice at all.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

El tono es un golpe de silencio que enmudece, en cada voz, la voz de los Otros que habla en los lugares comunes; un intervalo entre los estereotipos que deja oír lo que queda del enmudecimiento de la voz propia, un resto del anonadamiento (necesario, constitutivo) de la voz personal en la in-diferencia de lo trivial.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast , they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is.

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...

We judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel sorry for them.

All of that Hollywood stuff! Like these women wanting men to pick them up and carry them across thresholds and some of them weigh more than you do. I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie and television addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing then getting mad when a poor, scraggly husband comes in tired and sweaty from working like a dog all day, looking for some food. ~Malcolm X

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way.

Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Real men don't listen. I think you can waste a lot of valuable time listening to what people are saying to you and, let's face it, it's rarely interesting or important.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

When I was 14 my mum told my chemistry teacher she thought it was a waste of time girls going to university because they'd only just get married. I remember being so angry with her.