Stereotype Quotes

294 Stereotype quotes by 255 unique authors

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. — Kelley Armstrong
It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV. — Stephenie Meyer
I am a rare species, not a stereotype. — Ivan E. Coyote
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question… — Ahdaf Soueif
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person.… — M. Scott Peck
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the… — Moderata Fonte
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed. — John Stuart Mill
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed… — Moderata Fonte
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired… — Ted Chiang
Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult? — Tamora Pierce
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to… — Ellen DeGeneres
Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. — Deb Caletti
If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday — Carrie Vaughn
Don’t stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group,” I said. — Kim Harrison
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. — Tom Clancy

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