"My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'"

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Lea DeLaria

#Mother Quotes #Nice Quotes #Dykes Quotes

“Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.”
“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.”
“No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.”
“I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.”
“Treat the world the way you want to be treated.”
“The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.”

Source : "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.
“DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.”

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