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• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Husband, Latin

  Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

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• My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

  Kurt Cobain

  Courage, Honesty, Fear

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• The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.)
  Denial of Agency: She didn't write it.
  Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it.
  Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about.
  False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"?
  Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.61, University of Texas Press

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• Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Family, Money, Work

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• Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, School

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• Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

  John Prendergast

  Rights, Racism, Abuse

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• We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Children, Racism, Justice

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• We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

  Octavia Spencer

  Latin, Other Cultures, White

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Robin Morgan

  Mean, Ceilings, Graduates

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• women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Men, May, Pages

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• Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Power, Two, Rewards

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• Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is not just stewardess or nurse. But we still have to deal with micro-aggressions and daily sexism. We are still fighting for word over our own bodies. We still get the short shrift on equal pay. We're still not represented in media or the arts with total parity. Not on screen or on the page or behind the scenes. It's still not easy. There is still this constant low-grade fight to be seen and taken seriously when you are a girl and when you become a woman. It totally sucks.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Girl, Art, Taken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it? Why are we so worried about it? Why, whenever a study comes out about men do this one way and women do this one way, or men's brains and women's brains - why are we so interested in that? You know, what makes us so fascinated by differences between the sexes? And I think more often than not that interest is deeply embedded in sexism.

  Jessica Valenti

  Men, Thinking, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

  Kristin Hersh

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Average, Trying

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Sympathy, Real, Rap

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Father, Women, Pride

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.

  Annette Bening

  Country, Blessing, Racism

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Educational, Long

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• I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Playing Games, Violence, Horrible

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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have been plenty of very good female painters, 2006 Turner Prize-winner Tomma Abts among them. How much history needs to pass before an artist is called 'great'? That is the real question.

  Matthew Slotover

  Art, Real, Female

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Males

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