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Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. -- Claude Pepper
It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older. -- Julie Walters
Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would. -- Perry Brass
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. -- Claude Pepper
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood. -- Cyndi Lauper
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. -- Gary L. Francione
Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. -- Alanis Morissette
Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old. -- Guy Oseary
Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism. -- Paul Krassner
It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory. -- Joan Collins
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. -- Timothy Noah
We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with. -- Madonna Ciccone
All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution! -- Clara Fraser
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure. -- Maya Angelou
Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die? -- Madonna Ciccone
Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.' -- Paul Weller
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. -- Gloria Steinem
The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me. -- Barbara Windsor
I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice. -- Daniel Petrie
Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier. -- Jane Seymour
As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book. -- Barbara Delinsky
There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well. -- Brandon Marshall
Honestly, what is ageism really, you know? If you take care of yourself and you feel good then that's really all that matters at the end of the day. -- Shay Mitchell
I've never had to deal with ageism - so far - in my career; I have been able to navigate my career and getting older and the roles and opportunities that have come to me. -- Sutton Foster

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