Stereotype Quotes - Page 23

• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  Mary Pipher

  Beautiful, Team, People

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• I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

  Ivan E. Coyote

  Species

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• I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

  Rupert Grint

  Children, Crazy, People

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• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.

  M. Scott Peck

  Unique, Two, People

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• 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

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Trying, Typecasting

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• The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Birthday, Racism

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• Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

  Moderata Fonte

  Believe, Men, Facts

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

  Marilyn Wann

  People, Prejudice, Levels

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• I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

  Ricky Williams

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Running, Country, Strong Women

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  We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Passion, Ambition, Goal

  "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

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