"I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man."

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Source : Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press

Faith Ringgold

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“It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.”
“I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one.”
“Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.”
“You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (1989). “Family Sayings”, p.98, Arcade Publishing
“I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.”
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.Â I am quite sincere about some of the things that people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which most people take seriously.Â In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.”
“When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.”

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