"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."
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"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."
"You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia."
"Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?"
"We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at."
"I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it."
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