"Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means."

-- Jessica Valenti

#Mean Quotes #Issues Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.”
“Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try.”
“I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.”
“I've always been drawn to historical fiction.”
“rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.”

Source : Dorothy Cannell (2013). “God Save the Queen!”, p.13, Belgrave House
“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”

Source : Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press
“Hate would destroy him who hated.”
“I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.”

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