Teri Gender Bender famous quotes

I'm bored to tears by how many clowns have been leaders. That's why it's important to be the best we can be within our own little lives. This divine comic tragedy just keeps getting darker and darker. It's a pattern. What goes up comes down and what comes down goes up. When the wall is finished being built, someday it will get torn down. And then someday it will be built back up again.
-- Teri Gender Bender

#Wall #Bored #Leader

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.
-- Teri Gender Bender

#Feminist

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.
-- Teri Gender Bender

#Thinking #Feminist #Feminism

I never hung around people who took hard drugs, and much less hung around artists who took hard drugs. All I know is that people should listen to their bodies more. The body is a temple. We aren't here forever. Take care of that space suit and make the best of it till the wheels fall off.
-- Teri Gender Bender

#Fall #Artist #People

There are many challenges, sadly many challenges our mothers were used to but have endured, which is inspiring. Sadly there are many challenges that many of us are already used to and have been fighting for years, yet our strengths will inspire future generations. That's not to forget we will share many more triumphs to come. It is all a process. Ironically enough, situations that violate human philosophy unite people of different backgrounds.
-- Teri Gender Bender

#Mother #Philosophy #Fighting

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.