"And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive."

-- Uma Thurman

#Thinking Quotes #Taught Quotes #Female Quotes

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”
“The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.”
“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.”
“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?”
“The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.”
“In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
“What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.”

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