Sexism Quotes · Page 6

“Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

— Gad Saad

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

— Patrisse Cullors

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

— Gretchen Carlson

“Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!”

— Knut Hamsun

“For their menstrual cycle, women subconsciously want to punish men.”

— Daya Kudari

“Recognizing that sexism still exists, they said, “is one of the challenges of the new generation.”

— Lynn Povich

“Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as…

— Erica Jong

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only…

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds…

— Abhijit Naskar

It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are…

— Neal Stephenson

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and…

— Christa Wolf

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's…

— Anna Quindlen

“Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.”

— Terry Pratchett

It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is…

— Charlie Pickering

Let me say this. [Donald] Trump is the only person that has control over what Trump does. Maybe his supporters support him…

— Jen Kirkman

“Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,…

— GaryLFrancione

“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a…

— Harriet Brooks

“Women are culturally conditioned to care for others, but not ourselves. We believe that having needs, feelings, ambitions, or thoughts of our…

— Rebecca Ann Parker

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls…

— Jessica Valenti

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

— Mel Robbins

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

— Kathleen Hanna

“Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?”

— Cat Winters

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

— Scarlett Johansson

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

— Max Boot

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

— Angela Yee

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in…

— Franz Grillparzer

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”

— Erica Jong

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

— Millicent Fenwick

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

— Lincoln Chafee

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

— Warren Farrell

“A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”

— George Gissing

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

— Laura Bates

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

— Layla Moran