If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.
We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
There are people out there like Fox News who, every time a Black person complains in public of how we are treated in our society, is accused of “playing the race card.”
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Pregnancy is treated like an illness in some sections of our society.
I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
I really loved being pregnant, especially because people treat you so nice.
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
I look pretty different. Luckily for me, I don't get harassed or anything like that.
I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.
I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.
I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
I never fancied myself having a prejudice towards people with tattoos. I personally don't have any and I don't think that I do, but I do see that people treat me differently with tattoos. People get out of my way.
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.
