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- If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything,…
- Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
- Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
- I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
- We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do…
- Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion…
- Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
- If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may…
- The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change…
- As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong