Rupi Kaur Quotes

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

In India and elsewhere in the world, the moment a woman speaks out against harassment, people sort of start making all sorts of character judgments about her, about her morality, about what she was wearing, and all such things, and I think that is not fair.

Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but I don't deny its existence.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from 'Jersey Shore.' The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

I was a loser in high school.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.