Sexism Quotations

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

Sexism isn't a woman's problem, it's a man's problem.

It goes to show how deeply embedded homophobia and sexism are.

We were told we should not pay any attention to John Roberts views and religion and now we are told that opinions and religion do matter. I believe there is a degree of sexism here. . .and ivy league prejudice going on here.

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

The whole thing is so predictable. This is a form of sexism that is so mainstream that people don't even blink their eyes when they learn the Duke lacrosse team hired a stripper. In a perfect world, that would not be sexist. But this is a world where one in four college women are sexually assaulted and women can't walk on campus at night because of the threat of violence from men.

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.

The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from 'Jersey Shore.' The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.

It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

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

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.