Quotes About Stereotype

what we think of as an advantage and as a disadvantage is not always correct, that we mix the categories up.

We all like chicken

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma—that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.

Desire, I thought, belonged to man; it reassured me not to admit that women could experience similar ones unless she were a woman of easy virtue.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal. According

Uncle Joe says they're running around like thirty-year-olds." Claudia looked confused. "Is that supposed to be young?" "To him," I replied.

She must have been French, because she had more hair under her arm than I did. 

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

Most people think a girl and a guy can't just be friends, there has to be something else going on.

girl with blonde hair wearing heavy dark eyeliner

it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.

For his part, Frank Wisner never truly regarded himself as a Southerner except, his middle son, Ellis, recalled, on those occasions when outsiders denigrated the region. "That's when he got his back up," Ellis Wisner recalled. "If people made fun of it, that's when he became a Southerner.

for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

Violet always said that in her part of England a single eyebrow marked you as a violent, criminal person, possibly a maniac.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

If you tell a person that she has a mental disorder, you create a mental disorder—not only in the patient but in those who love her as well. The disorder is fear. Chronic fear holds more people back in life than any other mental infirmity. How ironic—and wrong—that the

They say I have a face for radio and a voice for newspapers, ha ha, so please don't be frightened, ha ha.

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

A man may remain single by choice, but a woman only by compulsion.

A woman hates to be called an Aunty by anyone but a man may even take pride to be called an Uncle by others.