Quotes about Stereotype

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Her husband remains, in my memory, undefined. I lumped him with all the other white men that I had ever seen and tried not to see.

Why should I be afraid of you?' He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.' I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.