Labeled Quotes

157 quotes by 146 authors

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. — Charlize Theron
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can… — Clarence Thomas
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. — Neil Young
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's… — Eva Ibbotson
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. — Chuck Palahniuk
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of… — Patricia Hill Collins
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the… — Patrick Rothfuss
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics… — Kurt Vonnegut
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to… — Kate Bornstein
But now isnâ€™t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now… — Christopher Isherwood
We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use. — Adam Rex
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled â€œenemy? — Sylvia Plath
There will be guards,â€ Bast said. â€œAnd traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.â€ â€œMagicians can do… — Rick Riordan
There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose… — Adam Rex
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock â€™nâ€™ roll. But… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesnâ€™t necessarily get you the truth.… — Margaret Atwood
God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted… — Marian Keyes
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in… — A. Lee Martinez
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,… — Ralph Ellison

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