Top Sexism Quotes

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perh...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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

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

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

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