Sexism Quotes

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-o...

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educat...

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is peri...

Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us f...

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, ...

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a de...

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor...

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’...

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, the...

Ladies, if someone touches you and you don't want them to, feel free to punch them in the fucking fa...

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic met...

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, ...

But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were a...

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it lik...

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's worl...

The reason we call ships "she" is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

But why do we say nothing?" Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. "Why do we ...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for ...

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my '...

Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each oth...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the po...

The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be ma...

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexis...

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other,...

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extra...

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, w...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty place...

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

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious in...

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious ...

...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures gen...

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by soci...

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it...

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the ey...

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is...

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get...

We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are li...

There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference tr...

This is the underside of my world.Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want...

The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play ...

There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you calle...

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they ...

Disbelief is the first great silencer.

Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written...

Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit ...

It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows...

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

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented wi...

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...

One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls...

Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem.

The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publi...

When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevi...

As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and questio...

One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double b...

The incidents that go unwitnessed definitely help to keep sexism off the radar, and unacknowledged p...

Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old ...

This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-thr...