Shirley Chisholm Quotes

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Being a woman is really crap.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.