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Quotes About Prejudice

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.
~ Patricia McConnell
There are no social differences - till women come in.
~ H. G. Wells
I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.
~ Dick Armey
Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.
~ Dov Davidoff
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
~ Gao Xingjian
The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.
~ Gene Weingarten
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
Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.
~ Janice Kaplan
Finally, as I've said, this is - why are you talking about Jewish women's wigs and people wearing turbans? That has nothing whatsoever to do with niqab.
~ Jason Kenney
It is because of men that women dislike one another.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.
~ Jerry O'Connell
Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.
~ Jo Brand
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.
~ Joan Frank
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
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
~ John Irving
If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.
~ Joss Whedon
I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
~ Kamala Lopez
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
~ Lisa Gardner
Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
Men feared witches and burned women.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
~ Margaret Atwood
All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
~ Margaret Atwood
I just think women are funnier than men.
~ Margaret Cho