"I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves to be artists, because - it seems so quaint, but when I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not gonna say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in some sort of defiance of, or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Laurie Simmons

#Artist Quotes #World Quotes #Students Quotes

“However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.”
“You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth”
“A promise unkept will take a man's mind.”

Source : Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.181, Granta Books
“I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.”
“We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles”
“You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.”
“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”
“Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.”

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