Quotes About Stereotype

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

When you receive national recognition for leading the nation's toughest crackdown on illegal immigration and serving as Donald Trump's Virginia State Chairman, you get used to being falsely labeled as racist and xenophobic by the mainstream media, especially by 'The Washington Post''s editorial board, which has labeled me as such things for years.

Even when I was being recruited here to the University of Virginia, a lot of people in my own community didn't think I was Division I football material because I played at a small private school.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.

Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives.

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

My sister likes to play the victim. We've had some pretty heated exchanges about that before. If you don't want to be seen as a stereotype, then the way I see it, don't be one. But to my sister, that means playing a white man's game, and being who they want her to be, instead of being unapologetically herself.

Everyone comes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off.

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. >> In her absence they would say that she had always been a floozy and this mattered a great deal to my mother, for she and the person they would fashion from their sordid imaginations would have little in common except for a name.

Crying when feeling angry is a common female feeling racket.

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

Its funny how when you call a girl a bi... she get so pissed, but once you add a bad in front of it, it becomes a compliment.

Good girls go to Heaven, bad girls make you feel like you're in Heaven.

I hate when people assume you're on your period when you're in a bad mood.

'I can always relate to tampon commercials'...said no girl ever.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

There is an expectation that if you do sport, any sport, you should never have a life outside that. People expect you to just train, play, train. But that's not me.