"I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change."

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Source : "An incredible container for transformation". Interview with Sheila Bapat, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

Ai-jen Poo

#Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.”
“Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.”
“When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview With Yo Yo Ma on the Spirituality of Music". Interview with Laurence Vittes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.
“I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.”

Source : "The 'simple gambler' worth $9bn" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.
“I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.”
“If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.”

Source : ""It's Not Bullshit To Express Yourself The Way You Want": Cher And Zendaya In Conversation". Interview with Abby Schreiber, www.papermag.com. February 17, 2016.

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