Quotes About Stereotypes

#1. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#2. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

Jane Fonda

#3. TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

David Pietrusza

#4. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.

Jose Alaniz

#5. ... once you start demonizing groups of people, when you make them the other, you can justify doing just about anything you want to the, can't you? Look at history if you don't believe me.

Brunonia Barry

#6. The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

#7. Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

Ian McEwan

#8. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

Shahla Khan

#9. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow

#10. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. No matter what religious tradition you come from, you likely carry baggage and harbor stereotypes when it comes to the Holy Spirit. It's

Francis Chan

#12. If you join the rat race - you're in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

#13. [ ... ] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

Helen DeWitt

#14. Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Forest Whitaker

#15. There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Tim Wise

#16. It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's

Michael Lewis

#18. To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#19. A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it

Michael Ondaatje

#20. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Stewart Stafford

#21. Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.

Tina J. Richardson

#22. Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

Max Brooks

#23. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf

#24. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

Mako

#26. You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless( ... )

Tara Lain

#27. Women are extraordinary creatures!

Roman Payne

#28. At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Tinie Tempah

#29. Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

Jess Bowen

#30. When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

John Bargh

#31. What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

Louise Mensch

#32. Christ, they'd be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he'd cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Kate Aaron

#33. You could say I'm so manly I don't even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions

Ben Mitchell

#34. Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Sigourney Weaver

#35. Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.

Dennis Sharpe

#36. I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Kurt Cobain

#37. All of us
men and women alike
have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

Tamora Pierce

#39. Quaint and picturesque, though I didn't voice my opinion out loud. Keirran and Annwyl were faeries, and Kenzie was a girl, so it was okay for them to notice such things. as a card-carrying guy club, I wasn't going to comment on the floral arrangements.

Julie Kagawa

#40. Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

Andy Grundberg

#41. TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.

Roseanne Barr

#42. Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Camille Paglia

#43. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Sri Aurobindo

#44. I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns ... my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.

Melissa Kantor

#45. I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Ryan Seacrest

#46. If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

Danielle Trussoni

#47. Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Adora Svitak

#48. Canadian stereotypes. "In the east they are less polite than in the west.

Estelle Ryan

#49. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#50. Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#51. The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Fulton J. Sheen

#52. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#53. Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Bell Hooks

#54. Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

#55. We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#56. Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

Ted Bundy

#57. No community adheres completely to its stereotypes.

Kevin Roose

#58. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

Ricky Williams

#59. In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

#60. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#61. ...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark."

"That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans."

"He did have great clothes."

"Proving that stereotypes can span centuries.

Amy Fecteau

#62. People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

Kekla Magoon

#63. I don't believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.

Benjamin Franklin

#64. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

Neal Stephenson

#65. Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.

Paul Bloom

#66. What's your usual gig?"

"Physical fitness coach. I find it rather humdrum. Your assignment will be a welcome break in the quotidian ennui.

Julian May

#67. The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

Susan Sontag

#68. Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.

Daniel Goleman

#69. Stereotypes are valid first-order approximations.' The

Dennis E. Taylor

#70. When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.

Criss Jami

#71. The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes ... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.

Eli Roth

#72. Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#73. At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

Kristin Hannah

#74. I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart ... " That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy," Shay said. "Just holier-than-thou.

Jodi Picoult

#75. Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.

Orlan

#76. These bridges support revelations in opposition to repudiations and personal testimonies challenging thematic stereotypes. Although

MariJo Moore

#77. The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

Lapo Elkann

#78. Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

Edgar Ramirez

#79. To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

Chester Bowles

#80. Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

Danica McKellar

#81. I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Michelle Bachelet

#82. Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#83. The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to fit men into groups.

Richard Wright

#84. A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.

Ron DeLegge II

#85. You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

Soheir Khashoggi

#86. In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#87. Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.

Rachel Caine

#88. There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

David R. Mains

#89. If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

Antonio Munoz Molina

#90. The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

Nicolas Cage

#91. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#92. I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Peter Ustinov

#93. Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

Robert E Lane

#94. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#95. We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Donald Glover

#96. People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Jim Norton

#97. It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.

Walter Lippman

#98. FACT: The black family (and the black male/black female relationship) was systematically DESTROYED by over 500 years of institutionalized slavery, racism, and racist media stereotypes. The white family was not.

Umoja

#99. She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.

BeBe Winans

#100. The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

Ryszard Kapuscinski