"I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is."

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Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

Trina Robbins

#Icons Quotes #Wonder Woman Quotes #Influence Quotes

“You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.”
“The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.58, Penguin Books India
“Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?”
“I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.
“The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.”
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.”
“Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.”
“I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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