"So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic."

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Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

Roxane Gay

#Perfect Quotes #Feminism Quotes #Realistic Quotes

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

Source : "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.
“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.”
“When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.”
“Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.”
“Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?”
“This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.”

Source : "Kan: Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuke crisis", www.stripes.com. April 7, 2011.
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves”

Source : Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 August 1924, The White House Grounds, Washington, D.C.
“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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