Top Sexism Quotes

I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said I was sorry that Harvard turned her down. She replied, "No, I received letters o...

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappe...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portr...

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have...

This myth of meritocracy and equal opportunities encourages individualism over collective action, because when people believe this myth, they obviously see no need for protest movements around particu...

The biased use of pronouns serves to perpetuate the culturally based myth that men are perpetrators and women are victims. This myth is extremely damaging to the millions of male victims of sexual and...

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury,...

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.

Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It...

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with co...

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimenta...

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

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