Sexism Quotes

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. (Robin Morgan)
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely. View quote
Kathleen Hanna
The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing." View quote
Yvette Cooper
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed. View quote
John Howard
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society. View quote
Anita Sarkeesian
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. View quote
Claude Pepper
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it. View quote
Deborah Copaken
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. (Ellen Pompeo)
Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way. View quote
Jessica Valenti
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. View quote
Jessica Valenti
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. View quote
John Prendergast
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving. View quote
Paloma Faith
Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way. View quote
Doug Stanhope
I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
The fact that no one has come up with a really convincing reason for giving greater moral weight to members of our own species, simply because they are members of our species, strongly suggests that there is no such reason. Like racism and sexism, speciesism is wrong. View quote
Peter Singer
Well, what is a political film? A film about politicians? Or a film about issues - sexism, racism, the environment, nuclear policy? I decided on the broader definition. If I'd limited myself to films about politicians, it would have been a short list: How many characters in any mainstream American movie seem aware of the political process, or belong to a party? View quote
Roger Ebert
I don't think sexism is worse than racism, it's impossible even to compare ... It's that I feel lonely in my fight against sexism, in a way that I don't feel in my fight against racism. My friends, my family, they get racism, they get it. The people I'm close to who are not black get it. But I find that with sexism you are constantly having to explain, justify, convince, make a case for. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Feminism is not that men and women are the same. If men and women are the same, we won't have sexism. We are just stating the differences and people should stop giving negative value to all the attributes that women have. It's not that men and women are the same but they've equally human. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
It doesn't surprise me to learn that there is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked. View quote
Gloria Steinem
You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism. View quote
Kim Gordon
Women's studies is institutionalized sexism. View quote
Camille Paglia
The amount of racism, sexism, homophobia, and hatred in general that lies beneath the surface of the American dream is astounding and serious. View quote
Margaret Cho