Quotes About Bias

Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.

People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important.

I never liked Duke. I don't know why. Just never did. Guess they were always a heavy favorite and I liked to go with the underdog.

The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.

If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Unfairness is everywhere.

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.

Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?

The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately

Morality is always prejudicial.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.