"If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?"

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June Jordan

#Heart Quotes #Gay Quotes #Justice Quotes

“On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. Itâ€™s always shocking when people question whether itâ€™s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isnâ€™t a dirty word. Itâ€™s not like weâ€™re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.”
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
“When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.”
“Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.”
“Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.”

Source : Olen Steinhauer (2010). “The Nearest Exit”, Macmillan
“Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.”
“If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well”

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