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Quotes About Stereotype

A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie
~ Sue Grafton
Hooker was falsely thought to be the origin of the word for "prostitute," because his camp was so rowdy.
~ Susan Cheever
The Queen had real power, and a woman in power, feared as virile, is often accused of being a slut.
~ Susan Sontag
It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
~ Susanna Clarke
I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.
~ Susanna Clarke
An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.
~ Joseph Sobran
The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.
~ Josephine Tey
Her grandmother wasn't alone in thinking that if you were a vegetarian you had to like tofu, as if it were an obligation you'd incurred.
~ Joshua Henkin
The only true stereotype about Black women is how Black women will say, "Well, no one's doing it, so I guess I'll do it." Once you put that lady in your office, no matter what your office is, if you treat her right, she is going to do your job and her job. And I think people are slowly realizing that.
~ Judd Apatow
When I repeated what I had been told, namely that women couldn't be successful in business, she was astonished.
~ Judith Nies
I can always tell when Indian people are born in America. They have the most American accent.
~ Karan Soni
North Indians tend to talk a little louder than others.
~ Mahima Chaudhry
I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.
~ Kirsten Dunst
You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
~ Samuel Larsen
A woman, by nature, is more emotional than a man and is not equipped to approach certain responsibilities with the authority that has been inherent in man.
~ Lorne Greene
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
~ Christopher Buckley
Growing up a lot of people said I played like a guy. They thought it was an insult, but I was like, 'That's fine, I don't care.'
~ Jennifer Brady
There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.
~ Slick Rick
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
~ Paloma Faith
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
~ Alexandra Wentworth
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
~ Stanley Clarke
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
~ Kenneth Baker
People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.
~ JaVale McGee
It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.
~ Mary Lambert