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• Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mind, Culture, Body

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Thinking, Doe, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all. And you're as American as anybody else, whatever your religious beliefs. But try not to get caught up in media stereotypes of your neighbors and of your country. Think about people that you know and how they treat you. As you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

  David Henry Hwang

  Writing, Character, Battle

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Talking, Masculine And Feminine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Smart, Men

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• Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Book, Men

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• Accept people, don't stereotype people. Don't think because right now they're driving a cab, they're not going to have a master's degree or that they're dumber than you.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, People, Confusion

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• Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Voice, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Failing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don’t really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the way they look. They shouldn’t really try to conform to any kind of stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy.

  Rebel Wilson

  Thinking, Healthy, Trying

  "Rebel Wilson Preaches Positive Body Image And Acceptance, And We Love Her For It". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Goal, Community, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

  Paul Haggis

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• 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

  Character, Boys, America

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• Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Nature, Men, Sea

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• "Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

  Hank Stuever

  Character, Player, Nerd

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Mean, Data

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• I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Kind

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• Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

  Lil B

  People, Ruins, Boxes

  "Audio And Best Quotes From Lil B's Nyu Lecture" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Thinking, Worst, Worst Things

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

  Eric Liu

  Eye, Artist, Years

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• Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.

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