629 Quotes About Sexism

Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.

Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.

The grace and understanding for the familial choices of married women is a given. The humanity of single moms comes with asterisks, ridicule, and judgmental questions.

I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

I have the deepest respect for those who rise above the bigotry of their families.

There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.

There will always be injustice in the world, because, you know, humans. The question is how we will choose to respond to the injustice around us.