#stereotype

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#children #culture #decisions #entire #indian

The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does the former he is more or less in love, and love to John Ingerfield is an unknown emotion. Her beauty, her charm, her social tact--even while he makes use of them for his own purposes, he despises as the weapons of a weak nature. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#gender-stereotypes #beauty

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. ↗

— Colin Powell

#approach #best #chase #dictates #fads

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#i #just #lucky #much #really

While there still is a word for the word “normal”, the world with all it's constellations of problems will continue to assume they know what that means based on their experiences and upbringing. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bias #insane #normal #stereotypes #stupidity

Why do we have to behave like idiots to prove we're not a stereotype? Why do we have to rebel against ourselves? Enjoy the freedom to be shy ↗

— T.J. Bowes

#rebel #shy #stereotypes #freedom

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#double-standards #gender #hypocrisy #immorality #men

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#men-and-women #love