#stereotype

You're not gay, are you? If I were, I would dress better. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#gay-stereotypes #simon-lewis #stereotypes

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#stereotypes

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#activist #competitive #gender-stereotypes #stereotypes

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true. ↗

— Ron DeLegge II

#prejudices #racism #stereotypes #racism

Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women. ↗

— Nicole Hollander

#men-and-women #imagination

Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women. ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#gender-stereotypes #homosexuality #hot #male-beauty #shame

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#anything #basically #because #being #being a girl

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#begin #bound #come #conventions #exist

It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?' ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#attractive #because #life #like #make

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism