Sexism Quotes

...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures gen...

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by soci...

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it...

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the ey...

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is...

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get...

We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are li...

There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference tr...

This is the underside of my world.Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want...

The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play ...

There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you calle...

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they ...

Disbelief is the first great silencer.

Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written...

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit ...

It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows...

He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most w...

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented wi...

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...

One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls...

Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem.

The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publi...

When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevi...

As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and questio...

One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double b...

The incidents that go unwitnessed definitely help to keep sexism off the radar, and unacknowledged p...

Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old ...

This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-thr...

Sexism is often an invisible problem. This is partly because it's so frequently manifest in situatio...

The more stories I heard, the more I tried to talk about the problem. And yet time and time again I ...

Our experiences of all forms of gender prejudice - from daily sexism to distressing harassment to se...

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so...

He’s a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, a...

From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing h...

Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vin...

The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term “method” must...

She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman's ever having ...

We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little ...

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women...

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening t...

In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that ...

You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are ve...

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and ...

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in...

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is ...

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into...

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's ...

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against wom...

The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned ...

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have ...

Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male – I hesitate to say ‘man’ – or f...

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate gi...

You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her...

I think when it comes to females in the media you’ll see something that kind of upsets me which is t...

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get...

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write,...

In 1995, each cast at The Second City was made up of four men and two women. When it was suggested t...

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cy...

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...

That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if...

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, d...

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...

Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for ...

He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Wome...

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even tr...

I don’t want your babies, Felix. I can assure you I’m not sitting up here like some tragic fallen wo...

That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires ...

What a relief, Nadya thought; in that light he would not be able to tell that she had been crying."Y...

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long eno...

He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pa...

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish ...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this...

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish ...

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world o...

When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the fe...

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18