Quotes About Discrimination

The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes - totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.

Inequality starts in the womb.

India is one of those few countries in the world where violence against women starts in the womb, before the girl is even born.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

Light-skinned women, we can break them down more easy.

In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I do think, of course, that women and men should be paid the same.

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.