"I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody elseâ€™s. That we are the main characters in our own play, not props in somebody elseâ€™sâ€”which is how womenâ€™s sexuality is treated now. Whatever the outside attitudes about sexuality itâ€™s always about somebodyâ€™s agenda for us, and I want a world where we can have our own."

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Jaclyn Friedman

#Girl Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Character Quotes

“In a press conference, everyone is required to be like, "I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," but really?! It's a hilarious lie that everybody allows to be told.”
“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015
“No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY
“It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, and I feel like I've lost something, too, in the writing of self, as if I'm standing and reading myself, as a stranger, to other strangers.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.”
“I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.”
“[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.”
“Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents.”

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