Sexism Quotes

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

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

Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

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.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

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

The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitation.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

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.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

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

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

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

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

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

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

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

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

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

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