Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

I became stereotyped.

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

All labels are offensive in some way.

I've been labeled all my life.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.