"As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Alice Schwarzer

#Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes

“A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.”
“Found out. A nothing player.”
“Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel (2009). “The Piano Teacher”, p.262, Grove Press
“Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.”
“Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.”
“You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.”

Source : "Luke Wilson's Over Being 'America's Boyfriend'" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 10, 2011.
“Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.”
“For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.”

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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