Sexism Quotes

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

Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-o...

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educat...

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...

Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us f...

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, ...

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a de...

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor...

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’...

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, the...

Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking fa...

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic met...

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, ...

But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were a...

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it lik...

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's worl...

The reason we call ships "she" is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we ...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for ...

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my '...

Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each oth...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

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.