Quotes About Stereotype

I hadn't wanted my child to be seen as a mistake. An accident. I knew how too many people looked at teenage mothers, contemptuous of our carelessness, viewing us as a drain on the system.

When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn't disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don't believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind—well, then they'll work harder, seek help and try to catch up. The growth mindset also makes people able to take what they can and what they need even from a threatening environment.

When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn't disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don't believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind—well, then they'll work harder and try to catch up.

A stereotype might bend or even shatter under the weight of disconfirming information, but the hallmark of prejudice is that it is impervious to reason, experience, and counterexample.

And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.

I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all. The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

Q. Why don't they work harder? A. They just don't like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like to keep it up. The British find it boring.

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade.

The happy-go-lucky Negro of song and story was gone forever and in his stead was a nervous, money-grubbing black, stuffing away coin in socks, impatiently awaiting a sufficient sum to pay Dr. Crookman's fee.

Ever' gal I ever seen you with looked like an ofay.

and yes, the rich are never crazy, they're eccentric),

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

I was once the typical daughter, then the easily recognizable wife, and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.