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Portia de Rossi

"I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself."

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

Portia de Rossi

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“The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.”
“The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed”
“You have to believe in the process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.”
“A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.”
“Whatâ€™s so hard about love? You simply grab the otherâ€™s hand and refuse to let go.”
“[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.”
“Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.”

Source : "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
“We are but as the instrument of heaven.”

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