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Quotes about Stereotypes

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
— Ava DuVernay
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
— Malala Yousafzai
Our Kingdom call is to revolt against the Powers by dismantling the hierarchy of privilege, rejecting all racial stereotypes and judgments, forging meaningful relationships across ethnic lines, and submitting ourselves to one another as we listen, learn, and follow one another.
— Gregory Boyd
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
— Robert Byrne
A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
— LM Montgomery
Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.
— Dolly Parton
What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.
— Ernest Hemingway
For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
— Joel Osteen
Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.
— John Piper
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
— Billie Jean King
There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.
— Dorothy Day