Abuse Quote by Andrea Dworkin

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are…

— Cheris Kramarae

“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.”

— Bailey Poland

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles…

— Bell Hooks

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

— 404 Ink

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

— Anita Sarkeesian

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

— Warren Farrell

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

— Gloria Steinem

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

— Bell Hooks

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior…

— Bell Hooks

“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run…

— Robert Jensen

“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how…

— Nick Yee

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

— Margaret Hoover