#stereotype

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#alike #black #citizens #devoid #master

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#being #break #certain #certain kinds #feel

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autistic #autistic children #barren #behaviors #children

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#conditioning #feminism #inequality #misogyny #stereotypes

Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die! I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight! ↗

— Stage Beauty

#drama #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes #love #anger

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#asian #athletic #because #deceptively #fight

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

#marriage #stereotypes #anger

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men-and-women #waiting #men

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#individuality #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #self-awareness