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Quotes About Prejudice

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
~ Geena Davis
One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.
~ Unknown
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.
~ William Shakespeare
A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.
~ Unknown
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
~ Elayne Boosler
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~ Naomi Wolf
I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your bi... a.. back in the kitchen and make me some pie!
~ Unknown
Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
~ Kurt Cobain
The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.
~ Unknown
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~ Maya Angelou
Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?
~ William Shakespeare
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
~ Rebecca West
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
~ Gloria Steinem
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
~ Erica Jong
A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.
~ Mark Vonnegut
But it was not right that settlements were torched and destroyed when the inhabitants had nothing to do with the blinkered obsessions of some of my people.
~ Unknown
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
~ Marlee Matlin
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
~ Marlo Thomas
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.
~ Marlon Brando
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski.
~ Marlon Brando