“ Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype. ”
- Jean Michel Jarre- Copy
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“ Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? ”
- Marilyn French- Copy
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“ Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both? ”
- Susan Sarandon- Copy
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“ It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
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“ Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes — what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' — can you help others do the same. ”
- Carlo Brumat- Copy
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“ It is time that we give up the habits which separate feelings and action, home and work. They originate in old-fashioned and unhelpful stereotypes. ”
- Gillian Butler and Tony Hope- Copy
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“ The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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“ I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. ”
- Hugh Downs- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed. ”
- Bell Hooks- Copy
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“ Forget your stereotypes, your fears. Straight people are not what you have been led to believe. They're a wonderfully diverse bunch, though the flamboyant ones hog all the media attention. ”
- Michael Goff- Copy
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“ A typical minority group stereotype — woman as nigger — if she knows her place she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike. ”
- Naomi Weisstein- Copy
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