629 Quotes About Sexism

Women treat us just as Humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them', answered Lord Henry, toying with some fruits. 'I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us,' murmured Dorian Gray, gravely. 'They create Love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back.

It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.

Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow.

You know, I used to think that the word of a woman who'd made a mistake was worth more than the word of a man with good reason to deny it. But you and Harold set me straight that night. Nobody believes a woman. They ain't allowed to make mistakes.

Banal sexism aside,I find myself temptedto read Wuthering Heights as one thick stacked act of revengefor all that life withheld from Emily.But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.It is a chilly thought.