Sexist Quotes

• In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Christmas, People, Racist

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• I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

  King Hussein I

  Opportunity, Men, Ideas

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• I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

  Phil Donahue

  Stupid, Silly, Feelings

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Fighting, Men

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• I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

  Christine Lahti

  Thinking, Different, Film

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• There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

  Gloria Allred

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

  Andy Rooney

  Football, Mean, Games

  "Connie Chung Tonight" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2002.

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• Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

  Adrienne Rich

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

  Marie de France

  Men, Violent, Homophobic

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• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Race, Doe

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

  David G. McAfee

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Desire, Trying

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• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  Viola Davis

  Emotional, People, Might

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.

  Sam Harris

  Attitude, Evil, Atheism

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• People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Suicidal, Dragons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Thinking, Males

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

  Bell Hooks

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Player, Differences, Issues

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• If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.

  Bell Hooks

  War, Writing, Mean

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.87, Routledge

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• I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Writing

  "MusicfestNW 2013: When Neko Met K.D". Interview with Robert Ham, www.wweek.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Thinking, Culture

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Early in my career, when I was still learning about politics, when I was wet behind the ears and naive... Up until the time I started radio show, nobody that knew me ever thought I was a hatemonger or a racist or homophobic or sexist or bigoted or any of that. Nobody. There wasn't anybody. Six months after being on the radio with this program, I'd become all of that. And I remember.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Racist, Remember, Program

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Fighting, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.57, Routledge

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