There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has… — Mindy Kaling 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
“That was another thing about boys: No one assumed the blew a gasket for any reason other than they were just really… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now… — Gertrude Bell 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
Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
“In short, women themselves absorb and transmit misogynistic values, just as men do. This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed… — Jacki Weaver 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
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
