Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

I hate being categorized.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

People like to pigeonhole you.

I became stereotyped.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I hate to be categorized.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

Genres are just names.