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- I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to…
- To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it…
- Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We…
- I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
- We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with…
- Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of…
- In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.
- Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where…
- There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.
- Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see…
- I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle