#stereotype

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #gender #girls

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

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#going #great #idea #instead #just

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#bond girl #girl #going #i #love

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#effects #extreme #halen #history #hopefully

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

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

...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

He was all over me like brown rice! ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#gay-dragons #humor #stereotypes #funny