Sexism Quotes

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the po...

The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be ma...

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexis...

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other,...

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extra...

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, w...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty place...

A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious in...

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

...[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...