Sexism Quotes - Page 9

• you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

  Ouida

  Women, Suffering, Crafts

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

  Charles M. Blow

  Want, Trump, Misogyny

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.' 'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others. 'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Light, Blue

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• I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

  Anna Quindlen

  Xenophobia, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Racism, Nazi, Anti Semitism

  "Bullock filing for divorce, reveals she has baby" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. April 28, 2010.

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• When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Thinking, Color

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

  Michele Bachmann

  Issues, Political, Citing

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.85, Penguin

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• Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

  Maureen Dowd

  Dream, Daughter, Loss

  "Yes, She Can" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2008.

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• I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Girl, Book, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Black, Body

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

  Boots Riley

  Song, Writing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Ideas, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is like fixing sexism. How do you do that? I'm of the opinion that discourse helps, that changing people's minds changes people's actions. On a more practical level, I do enjoy sassing back at trolls, because I always win, because my job makes me better at arguing. If I can frustrate or embarrass a troll, then that lodges in that person's brain that trolling me is not a consequence-free hobby.

  Lindy West

  Winning, Decision, Brain

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• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Names, Stories

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• I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, People, Machines

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• I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

  Kathy Griffin

  Night, Profound, Late

  "The PW Interview: Kathy Griffin". Interview with Rachel Deahl, www.publishersweekly.com. September 10, 2009.

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Racism

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• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Matthew Fox

  Women, Angel, Healing

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Feminism

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• As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

  Jessica Valenti

  Victim, Palin, Disagree

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

  Rose McGowan

  Fighting, People, Hearing

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

  Sarah Fielding

  Wise, Men, Choices

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.79

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• It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Men, Doors, White

  "It's time to take the men-only sign off the White House door" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2003.

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• I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if women in general are being degraded, are being dismissed, then I can respond in a way that demonstrates I'm not taking it personally but I'm really serious about rejecting that kind of behavior.

  Hillary Clinton

  Serious, Kind, Behavior

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• Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

  Phil Gramm

  Citizens, Politics, Sophia

  1995 On being asked if he would choose a woman as a running mate. In Newsweek,13 Mar.

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