Stereotype Quotes

How many times have we judged a book by its cover? A stereotype is that cover. It's a lazy mental shortcut, a caricature of a person or group, that prevents us from seeing true human uniqueness and complexity. It's a prison for the soul, trapping individuals in narrow molds, stifling potential, and creating barriers.

Every one of these quotes serves as a hammer to shatter the wall of that image: the image of ready-made molds, preconceived notions, and biases.

Quote by Rita Rudner: Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-mart...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network....
Quote by Mark Twain: The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles a...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats....
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: All Italians are plunderers....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for plea...
Quote by Charles Dickens: Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furni...
Quote by Euripides: A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: How much beer is in German intelligence?...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to t...
Quote by Mark Twain: Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, marrie...
Quote by Dolly Parton: I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleepi...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit....
Quote by Joseph Stalin: How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the ...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give ...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men who drink herbal teas are seldom serial killers....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' sho...
Quote by Rita Rudner: All men would still really like to own a train set....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everyb...
Quote by Rita Rudner: A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntari...
Quote by Mark Twain: Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it....
Quote by Rita Rudner: All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near t...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over mora...
Quote by Dolly Parton: If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I ...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved....
Quote by Mark Twain: The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs....
Quote by Patricia Neal: I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men in high levels of government seldom surf....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a wo...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans....
Quote by Rita Rudner: My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentra...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax....
Quote by Rita Rudner: Blondes have more fun, don't they? They must. How many brunettes do you see walking down the street ...
Quote by Rita Rudner: Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Su...
Quote by Rita Rudner: My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. B...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Basically the French are all peasants....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at o...
Quote by Mark Twain: The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
Quote by Rita Rudner: When four or more men get together, they talk about sports....