Chinese Quote by Robin Morgan Download Open image “The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.” — Robin Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Concepts Confucian Slave Women
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves.… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women. — Yang Lan Copy Share Image
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
“The Chinese dream is an American dream embedded in a Confucian cocoon.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self... — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles. — Robin Morgan Copy Share
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my… — Philip French Copy Share
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After… — Ed Koch Copy Share
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
