Sexism Quotes - Page 3

• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Sex, Men, Males

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• I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.

  Kate Nash

  Men, Given, Feels

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• The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Moving, Two, Practice

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• That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, People, Giving

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• When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going on at that time. And then it was all stopped.

  Crispin Glover

  Real, Years, Drug Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Persistence, Violence, Honest

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Country, Heterosexuality Is, Racism

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

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• Jonestown was supposed to be a great socialist experiment, a place where all the evil "isms" would be eradicated: racism, sexism, elitism. This appealed to blacks and white progressives alike. Fed up with racist "AmeriKKKa," they were going to start their own society, on their own terms.

  Julia Scheeres

  Evil, Racism, Racist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Here I Am, Law, Practice

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• A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

  Caroline Norton

  Suffering, Publicity, Facts

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1978). “Selected writings of Caroline Norton: facsimile reproductions”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

  Van Jones

  Uplifting, Children, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Ignorance, Racism

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.

  Melinda Gates

  Men, Guy, Elbows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

  Grace Paley

  Mean, Order, Years

  Grace Paley (2014). “Just As I Thought”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Law, Capable

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• I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly, my parents were lied to by their parents who were lied to by their parents and so on.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Racism, Evil, Parent

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

  Elaine Morgan

  Sex, Two, Objects

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.228, Souvenir Press

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• We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation. Add to that another two billion people who are just plain poor. If you look into the world of those caught in economic oppression, illiteracy, disease, and sexism, then you'll understand more clearly what we have to do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Opportunity, Two, People

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

  Sojourner Truth

  Writing, Men, Rights

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Doors, Rooms, Politics

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• If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Racism, Superhero, World

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Writing, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

  Eve Ensler

  Children, Thinking, Creating

  Source: bknation.org

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• A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pain, Gun, Men

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• You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

  Barbra Streisand

  Jobs, Men, Different

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