Sexism Quotes · Page 3

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

— Letty M. Russell

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

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Monique Wittig

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

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Lynda Carter

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

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us…

— Paula Rothenberg

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and…

— Octavia E. Butler

“A postsexist environment is not something that animal liberationists need passively await, in the meantime deferring to present sexism in the manner…

— Brian Luke

“Only when we got to the workforce did we start to care about gender issues. Now a lot of young women are…

— Lynn Povich

“It wasn’t like I believed that sexism didn’t exist,” said Jesse. “It was just that it didn’t occur to me that what…

— Lynn Povich

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us.…

— Clara Fraser

“The problem with confronting people who make these comments is that the most you will get out of it is mockery and…

— Kaitlyn Scarboro

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of…

— Whitney Chadwick

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings…

— Ashley Montagu

“Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted…

— Diane Chamberlain

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and…

— Gloria Allred

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

“Guy welcomed my breasts warmly. He hugged them like long-lost friends and stared at them with the protectiveness of a mother lion,…

— Ally O'Brien

In the chapter called "On Being a Woman in Politics," we have to come to grips with the endemic sexism and misogyny.…

— Hillary Clinton

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I…

— Faith Ringgold

Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is…

— Mona Charen

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

— John Barnes

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.'

— Nikki Glaser

Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.

— Nushrat Bharucha

“Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...”

— Victor Hugo

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

— Barbara Mikulski

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

— Robin Morgan

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides

“There's something infinitely fascinating or fatal about a woman behind the wheel.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

— Alix Kates Shulman

“He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison