Quotes About Bias

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

No man can see his own prejudices.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."