629 Quotes About Sexism

You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using "bitches" and "hoes" as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

For out of it all rose the vague, crude picture of woman as the prey of man. Man was animal, a composite of lust and cruelty, with no aim but that of brutally taking his pleasure: something monstrous, yet to be adored; annihilating, yet to be sought after; something to flee and, at the same time, to entice, with every art at one's disposal.

You can't get there from here.

It may not be right,” Aalea said. “It may not be just. But this is aworld of senators and consuls and Luminatii—of republics and cults andinstitutions built and maintained almost entirely by men. And in it, loveis a weapon. Sex is a weapon. Your eyes? Your body? Your smile?” Sheshrugged. “Weapons. And they give you more power than a thousandswords. Open more gates than a thousand war walkers. Love has toppledkings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken our poor, sunsburned sky.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]

It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.

Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the curse. It’s God’s punishment.’‘For what?’‘Giving Adam the apple, I suppose.’‘He didn’t have to eat it.’‘Yes he did. If someone offers you food, it’s only manners to take it. Why are you always so argumentative?