Stereotype Quotes - Page 7

• The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Media, Advertising

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• That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, War, Doe

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

  Eddie Trunk

  Perception, Prove, Metals

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• Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

  Nat Wolff

  Teenager, Book, Filled

  Source: variety.com

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• 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 in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

  Bell Hooks

  Fashion, White, Black

  Bell Hooks (2004). “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• 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 in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Mind, Doe, Prejudice

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground”, p.278, A&C Black

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• Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Twilight, Feet

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, Men, White

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• [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 and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

  Anton Chekhov

  Compassion, Objectivity, Political

  "Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2017.

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• 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 is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Healing, Healthy

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• The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sports, Moving, Animal

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.25, Vintage Canada

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• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Distance, Taken

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.170, Routledge

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• I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier, there's just no denying the impact that showing people the truth can have. It allows people to understand themselves, and when you understand yourself you can understand the people around you. And then you can begin to let go of all the bullshit that leads into things like world wars, racism, stereotypes, and bigotry.

  Gale Harold

  Letting Go, War, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

  Eleanor Clift

  Party, Effort, Tea

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• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  Emily Blunt

  Self, People, Touching

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• Every Harry Potter film features Lord Voldemort, who stereotypes evil. And movies that discriminate against evil have no place on campus, because evil has feelings, too. Terrorists cry during commercials and mad bombers enjoy long walks and campfires, too.

  Jedediah Bila

  Long Walks, Evil, Mad

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.

  Taye Diggs

  Wife, Missing, Black

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• Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

  George Clooney

  Mother, Faster

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• I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Hate, Cliche, I Hate

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• What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Letting Go, Men, Mind

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• I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Voters, Columns, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

  John Bargh

  Stupid, Reality, Color

  "Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes" by Annie Murphy Paul, www.psychologytoday.com. May 1, 1998.

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Hero, Character

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