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Quotes About Sexism

With hindsight, of course, I can see how brilliantly institutionalized the sexism was at Newsweek. For every man, an inferior woman. For every male writer, a female drone. For every flamboyant inventor of a meaningless-but-unknown detail, a young drudge who could be counted on to fill it in.
~ Nora Ephron
I attempted to make a more academic argument about how the Limp Bizkit song "Nookie" was misogynist for suggesting that the protagonist's ex-girlfriend should inject a cookie into her vagina (or maybe that she should somehow fold her vagina into her rectum — the specific lyrics have never been clear).
~ Chuck Klosterman
The paradox: is God a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semetic? Or is God testing to see if I am?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough, you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Naître fille dans ce pays est un crime en soi. Vous êtes coupable parce que pas mâle. Et vous êtes pute parce que fille. Alors autant l'être pour de bon. Une fille peut être vendue moins cher qu'une vache .
~ Chahdortt Djavann
Me costó superar el trance. Deprimida me aislé en casa a rumiar mi fracaso. Encima tuve que bregar con el enojo de Claudio por mi desnudez. Amigos suyos habían ido a las funciones. «Ellos vieron lo que solo debía ver yo», protestó. Estaba tan abatida que no tuve arrestos para enfrentar su machismo, su posesividad, su ego herido o lo que fuera.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
~ Brianna Wu
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.
~ Gad Saad
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
~ Varun Grover
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
~ Elizabeth A. Johnson
I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
~ Norman Mailer
While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
~ Kathleen Hanna
While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution.
~ Laura Bates
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.
~ Octavia Spencer
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.
~ Gloria Steinem
I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.
~ Herbert
[Donald Trump] tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers.
~ Hillary Clinton
I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
~ John Green
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.
~ Judy Woodruff
I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
~ Kamala Lopez
I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.
~ Kate Nash
If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.
~ Lewis Black
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.
~ Maria Teresa Horta