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Quotes About Prejudice

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.
~ Larry Flynt
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~ Helen Reddy
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
I don't hate other women. Let me rephrase that: I hate other women and men - people in general can be annoying - but I've never disliked a woman for being beautiful.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.
~ Roy Moore
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
~ Ilana Glazer
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
~ Julie Walters
Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.
~ Brad Stine
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
~ Karen DeCrow
If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
~ Doris Day
Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
~ Camryn Manheim
The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.
~ Jerry Falwell
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
~ Joanna Russ
Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.
~ Sam Elliott
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
~ Roseanne Barr
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
~ Margaret Drabble
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.
~ Rob Lowe
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.
~ Esperanza Spalding
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
~ Denzel Washington
Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
~ Kathleen Hanna
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
~ Sheryl Sandberg