"I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Cutting Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Closets Quotes

“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.”

Source : Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY
“It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.”
“I would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.”
“...If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard...”
“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
“The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Source : "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.
“But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.”

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