Margo St. James famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency.
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If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops.
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When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.
-- Margo St. James
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
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I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.
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If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.
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I love dancing and the salsa is just so sexy.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge
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