Quotes About Stereotype

Like the Chinese, the Italian is a born gambler.

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.

You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

Do I look like the flower type of guy?

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

He stared at the cheap linoleum between his shoes and admitted to himself that once again he had fallen into the trap that often snared so many of the educated and upper-class locals when they convinced themselves that the rest of the population was stupid and ignorant. Cranwell was smarter than most lawyers in town, and infinitely more prepared.

The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning framework of our own limited cultural criteria, we still speak within the cliché of the stereotype." That

I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal level, that there is no Other - that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials. This alone is the key that can unlock the prison of culture. It will neutralize the poisons of the stereotype that allow men to go on benevolently justifying their abuses against humanity.

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

Some readers and writers don't look like readers or writers.

Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling;

what other sort of woman would be out at that time by herself?

Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

I think when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable... Thankfully, I proved people wrong.

I'm done trying to be nice. If I'm constantly get labeled as the evil one anyway, at least let me play the part.