Sexism Quotes · Page 4

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

— Warren Farrell

“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”

— Judith L. Alpert

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

— Rita Moreno

I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.

— Frankie Cosmos

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

— Florynce Kennedy

Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.

— Madonna Ciccone

“Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

— Billie Eilish

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections...…

— Newt Gingrich

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of…

— Liz W. Garcia

“Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable…

— Cordelia Fine

marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child…

— Alva Myrdal

I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me…

— Oona Chaplin

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that…

— Nahnatchka Khan

“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're…

— Scaachi Koul

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions…

— Roxane Gay

“When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does…

— Al Masudi

Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature…

— Mary Hays

“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said…

— Alan Dershowitz

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the…

— Anonymous

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that…

— Jessica Valenti

“Our whole cultural perception of sexism, as the context in which the majority of gendered violence happens, seems to be understood in…

— 404 Ink

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common…

— Jessica Valenti

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

— Lynda Carter

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“It want the sex that wa starting to feel toxic; it was the sexism.”

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.

— John Barnes

I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I'm sure I will a lot more.

— Alex Morgan

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

— DaShanne Stokes

“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man”

— Virginia Woolf

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

— Michelle Bachelet

I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.

— Ian Brown

“One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing”

— Monique Wittig

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

— Lord Chesterfield

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

— Hugh Hefner

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

— Letty M. Russell

“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.”

— DaShanne Stokes