Quotes About Bias

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and I think there still is a dominance of males.

I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.

Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

Sexism is real.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

You can still be sexist even though you're not necessarily talking about women.

Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

If people say I paid someone more because I liked them, okay. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.