Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them. – Forest Whitaker
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes. – Ted Bundy
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. – Julian Seifter
Some people can’t fit the mould that’s made for them…They get squashed in. And it’s hard for them to leave, but it’s harder for them to stay. They have to find other ways to be. – C.J. Flood
I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. – Annie Leibovitz
Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them. – Danny Pudi
Stereotypes exist because they are useful. They reduce the tremendous complexity of the world around us into a few simple guidelines, which we use in our everyday thoughts and decisions. However, the simpler and more convenient the stereotype, the more likely it is to be inaccurate, at least in part. – Stuart Oskamp
For a woman … to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity – a perversion, if you will. – Louise J. Kaplan
Do you drink?” “Of course, I just said I was a writer.” – Stephen King
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it’s just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are. – Donald Glover
Every character when born is a stereotype. – Michael Patrick King
Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something. – Carolina Herrera
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
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
There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I’ll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. – Joan Chen
Women are leaders everywhere you look – from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. – Nancy Pelosi
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
Don’t live up to your stereotypes. – Sherman Alexie
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don’t have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. – Joan Smalls
Stereotypes are lazy thought; we don’t need to listen or observe as we feel we know already. Except we don’t – we just have a head full of prejudices.
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