“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsMayHomeCertainKnownPositionHabitFitComfortTasteMembersCapacityTraditionDefenseExpectedCoreConsistentStereotypeWell KnownAdapted Author:Walter Lippmann
“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.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.” MenMindTwoRealityPrinciplesAtheismInvolvedFitPerceptionAspectPositive AtheismComplexityStereotypePreferenceBiasedDifferentiationShorthand Author:Robert E Lane
“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.” MeanDoeStatesRealityAmericaFitEuropeJewIsraelRussiaFamiliarPhrasesEtcStereotypeDiasporaHomegrown Author:Steven Pressfield
“When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.” LooksBeautifulYoungGirlSportsGrowing UpGrowingFitFemaleAthleteLook UpMusclesStereotypeAthleticSoftballFemale AthleteWnba Author:Jennie Finch
“Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?” ShouldLongDoeFightingBlackWhiteStruggleRightsFitLifetimeCivil RightsStereotypeFrostBeneficiariesOreos Author:John McLaughlin
“I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me, i met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good.” KnowsTryingDreamParentFitMetsExpectedAmerican DreamStereotypeTrying To Fit InGood Dream Author:Christophe Beck
“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansDoeWholeMomentsRealizingConsciousnessFrontsObjectsFitAccountsStructureStereotypeHuman ConsciousnessGreat Moments Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.” PeopleChallengesFitDrinkAppreciateCookingCraftsFoundersStereotypeInstagramFood LoveFood And DrinkI Love Food Author:Kevin Systrom
“I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.” ThinkingSchoolFitSummerUnhappyMiserableRebelStereotype Author:Iris Apfel
“Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.” WorldFallFoundIndividualLosesGroupsFitComplexesStereotypeFalling Apart Author:Ed Koch
“It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.” FitDelightActressesStereotype Author:Danica McKellar
“Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.” SituationTeamFitApproachManagementAccomplishMissionsStereotypeFadsInspirational Team Author:Colin Powell
“Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.” ThinkingWorldWayKindCertainFitDressesJust OneStereotype Author:Portia de Rossi