Quotes About Discrimination

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.