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My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.
— Thomm Quackenbush
The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
— Warren Farrell
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.
— Jacky Fleming
It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.
— Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.
— Abhijit Naskar
Dear me no Dears, Sir ...
— Aphra Behn
While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
— Michele Bachmann
Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.
— DaShanne Stokes
Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.
— Benjamin R. Smith
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
— Warren Farrell
Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [ ... ]. The iron is less dangerous.
— Madeleine Urban
Feminism is not anti- male, Feminism is anti-sexism
— Bell Hooks
Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?
— Cat Winters
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
— Florence King
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
— Oprah Winfrey
He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.
— Celia Conrad
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
— John Prendergast
Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.
— Sasha Alsberg
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
— Jacky Fleming
I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
— Hari Kondabolu
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
— Andrea Dworkin
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
Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.
— Richard Keys
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
— Henry Kissinger
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
— Bell Hooks
As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.
— Jessica Valenti
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
— William Faulkner
Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.
— Ashton Applewhite
I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.
— Patricia Cornwell
Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.
— Katie Couric
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
— Pearl Cleage
The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.
— Elizabeth Banks
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.
— Neil Gaiman
Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.
— George Eliot
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
Sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?
— Nicholas D. Kristof
I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
— Sam Altman
Power is neither male or female.
— Michael Crichton
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
— Anne Carson
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
Do you realize how angry you sound? must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
— Renata Adler
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
— Christopher Hitchens
What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.
— Sara Sheridan
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
— Claude Pepper
Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
— Mae West
Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ...
— Victor Hugo
But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they'd conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.
— Maggie Young
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
— Jeanette Winterson
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.
— Niccolo Ammaniti
Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.
— Carrie Fisher
A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.
— Jennifer Fox
If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?
— Clare Boothe Luce
It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.
— Elaine Morgan
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
— Robin Morgan
When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
— Andrea Dworkin
I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.
— Kate Nash
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
— Kristin Cashore
[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
— Will Durant
O woman, thou art my imperfection!
— Pawan Mishra
A woman's lust is for a short time; a man's lust is forever.
— Santosh Kalwar
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
— John Derbyshire
Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism?
— Przemek Skwirczynski
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
— Nellie L. McClung
Pride. You have it where you can have it.
— Marilyn French
Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.
— Kathleen Hanna
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
— Ashton Applewhite
Men in particular," he went on, stating the loathsome truth, "are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye.
— Lucy Parker
I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
— Barbara Mikulski