Sexism Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

  Deborah Copaken

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Culture, Body

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• During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, School, Renaissance

  Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)

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• I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Mean, Earning, Poor

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53

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• All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!

  Clara Fraser

  Racism, Historical, Way

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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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• 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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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Reality, Political

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.362, Columbia University Press

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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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• 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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• It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Believe, Males

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.57, Spectra

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• Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, What Matters, Racism

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• I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Men, Intellectual

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• Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  Feminism, Movement, Oppression

  "Feminism Is for Everybody". Book by Bell Hooks, 2000.

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• I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

  Caitlin Moran

  Boys, Roots, Work Out

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• Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends.  That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that exist as means to the ends of men.  That's morally wrong.  We need to stop treating all persons - whether human or nonhuman - as things.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Men

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• 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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• It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

  Joyce Brothers

  Opportunity, Men, World

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• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Hierarchy, Discrimination

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Poverty, Dolls

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• the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

  Susan Faludi

  Heart, Argument, Equal

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

  Marguerite Duras

  War, Women, Rain

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• The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Perfection, Noble

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