There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy,… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
“He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend,… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“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,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
“Hell of a sight. She let out a scream and just fell to pieces. Can't say I blame her. Like I said,… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“I don’t think male gamers are more or less sexist than non-gamers. Sexism is unfortunately still a large problem in our culture… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“After all, you can argue – argue until you cry – about what modern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness, of the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women. — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you… — Samhita Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
“after the 2016 election, the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society at the University of Arkansas put out a… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.” — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like,… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image