#sexism

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#odious #racism #sexism

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#door #down #i #i see #knock

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

#comes #custody #determining #however #rule

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure. ↗

— John Berger

#misogyny #projection #sexism #vanity

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them? ↗

— Jean Rhys

#funny

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#sexism #vocabulary #humor

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#sexism #humor

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#homophobia #lockstep #racism #sexism #terrorism