Sexism Quotes

“As a woman, you have to be twice as good to get half as far.”

“Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball.”

“The ‘problem’ of the Black woman is that she is not seen as a woman, but as a Black. And she’s not seen as a person, but as a problem.”

“I maintain that the best thing for a woman to be is 'likeable.' It’s a word that has been engineered to be the knife in a woman’s back.”

“Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability in women, as long as they're not witty.”

“When I started, the men resented me. They wouldn't even say hello.”

“They told me a woman couldn't draw a strip like that. They said it was too adventurous. It was a man's strip.”

“Men who climb are listened to with respect and admiration... A woman receives little but idle curiosity and criticism.”

“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business.”

“The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.”

“I had to change my name from Dalia to Dale, because I was a woman and they wouldn't look at my work.”

“If you are a woman and have something to say, you will be called a strident, a shrew, or a scold.”

“Men are much more unwilling to take orders from a woman than a man.”

“I had to do a lot of groveling. The men behind the camera were not used to taking orders from a woman.”

“A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

“I couldn't get a bank loan. A woman couldn't get a bank loan.”

“The winds are not more wavering than a woman's mind.”

“The difference between you and me, Violet, is that I'm a man and you're a woman. It's a question of chromosomes.”

“I was a woman in a man's world, and I had to be tougher than the guys.”

“There was a lot of sexism in the music industry then, and there still is now.”