Sexism Quotes · Page 5

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

— Paul Krassner

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

— Franz Grillparzer

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

— John Dos Passos

I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.

— Kate Nash

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

— Sandra Bullock

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

— Bell Hooks

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

— Robin Morgan

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.

— Pramila Jayapal

With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood…

— Rory Kennedy

In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes…

— Brianna Wu

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“There is no relationship between brain size and intelligence. There is however a strong correlation between the size of the brain and…

— Andre the BFG

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder…

— Jed Mercurio

Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end…

— Assata Shakur

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because…

— Layla Moran

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

— Pat Nixon

“I hated that—when men, particularly powerful men, changed the subject to something frivolous and flattering when a woman asked a tough question.…

— L. Marie Adeline

It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty,…

— David G. McAfee

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently…

— Melinda Gates

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian…

— Lois Lowry

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all…

— GaryLFrancione

The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a…

— John Howard

I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism…

— Cory Booker

“Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, “You stay in there.” Don’t…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

— Mariah Nelson

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

— Michele Bachmann

“Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.”

— Patricia Cornwell

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

— Anonymous

“She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch.”

— Nenia Campbell

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I had to deal with casual sexism while working as a pundit for ITV during the World Cup in Russia.

— Eniola Aluko

“Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts.”

— Marina Diamandis Marina and the Diamonds

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

— Margaret Cho

“I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.”

— Susan Glaspell

“What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?”

— Malebo Sephodi

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

— Nadine Coyle

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

— Susan B. Anthony

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

— Gloria Steinem

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

— Constance Baker Motley