Quotes About Bias

When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

Let me very proudly say that as a television actor, I never, ever saw any gender bias.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Every word is a prejudice.

Minds festooned with error, barnacled with bias, swollen with delusions of godhead.

We live in a world that hates women so much that they would sooner blame a woman for reporting a crime than punish a man for committing it.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I've never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a director and asked why one of my friends didn't get a particular part, and he specifically told me it was because she just had a baby and it was hard to see her as sexy.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.

When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they're a woman. They don't want to be discriminated against because they're a woman.

Inequality starts in the womb.