Sexism Quotes Quotes

“Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.”
― Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Silencing women silences justice.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural.”
― Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Sexists refer to every female political opinion as "hysterical," just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth as "shouting," and for the same reasons — not because the women are actually being loud or unreasonable, but because women are not supposed to have opinions or voices at all.”
― Sady Doyle

“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“We are equal, we re all Humans, we are all related in some way. It doesn't matter what colour our skins is, our race, beliefs, gender, age, we are all equal. I say now is the right time to unite, if we do not unite soon something bads gonna happen”
― Anon1467

“When you say someone is stubborn and irrational because they're black, that's racism. When you say someone is stubborn and irrational because they're female, that's sexism. When you say someone is stubborn and irrational because they're a leo, that's astrology. Notice a pattern? It's all nonsense.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“His comments are not compliments, or even propositions.
They are declarations of ownership. They are threats.
They are the intrusive thumb of male privilege and patriarchal violence, reminding me of my place as I move around within public space.

They are the put-down, the screw-you, the worthless-slur, the great derision that is a constant, omnipresent reminder that society allows male sexual violence to function commonly as a social norm.

It is the constant reminder that I should always be scared.

That I am never safe.

That someone always wants to hurt me, and that society will always, always turn its face the other way, as seen by the normalcy with which men can publicly deride me with confidence and gusto in their threats.”
― Alice Minium

“One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it's an act of revolution.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I love the casual sexism of these paranormal investigation shows. Whenever there's an alleged aggressive/scary/demonic entity, these "psychics" always pause a beat and say: "I sense a male presence!”
― Stewart Stafford

“A boy can be celebrated because of his personality and talents, regardless of how he looks. In fact, talent can make a guy attractive who may not be by traditional standards. But a girl is usually only popular if she looks good.”
― Liz Prince, Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

“Tell me again how I should smile more. I always forget to prioritize strangers' aesthetic needs over my own feelings.”
― Anubha Saxena

“A woman’s place is in the house... and the Senate, and boardrooms, and space stations. Just a minor update.”
― Anubha Saxena

“I’m in the middle of a sentence when he grunts in displeasure, but I force myself to set my book down and turn to him. Dzyer gives me a nod and asks if Lambians really prohibit royal women from touching forged steel for fear of them contaminating themselves? I explain that they don’t really speak of it, then recall that I got a few weird looks for carrying a weapon. Of course, early on I also got looks for wearing what Lambians consider ‘masculine’ clothing and forgetting that in their language verbs are conjugated differently depending the sex of the speaker and the person referred to. Efficient, one would think, to know something about who is performing an action but confusing because the action itself does not change.”
― N.J. Lysk, The Realm of the Impossible

“Learn this now and learn it well my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Sexism, and its expressions, are multi-layered and complex. Often, it comes in gender-neutral language, decorated with gendered accents. It comes in the form of pink walls for young girls and blue for young boys. Barbie dolls and G.I. Joe’s. Skirts and dresses and Bermuda shorts. Fairy tales that shamelessly teach that women need a Prince Charming and superheroes who are almost always men. That boys don’t cry. It comes in the form of ‘protective’ mothers and fathers who don’t allow their daughters to date, while the son has many girlfriends. Or in the idea that while a woman may be doing well for herself, she must marry a man who does better than her or marry at all! And the over-glorification of motherhood that carefully cloaks the sacrifices a woman makes to raise a child and systematically alienates the man — the father. There is sexism everywhere if you stop and pay attention.”
― Prachi Gangwani, Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India