Quotes About Discrimination

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

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.

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

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.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

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.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

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.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

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.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.