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
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
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
Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something. – Carolina Herrera
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
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.
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
Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them. – Danny Pudi
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
It’s not a stereotype if it’s always true. – Daniel Tosh
….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. – Malcolm Gladwell
Every character when born is a stereotype. – Michael Patrick King
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
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
People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Empathy and honest open communication are the only way to live your life. – Shannon L. Adler
Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. – Moderata Fonte
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