Community Quote by Zach Wahls Download Open image ““...I was normal until society told me they didn't think I was normal.”” — Zach Wahls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
“Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?' 'Is that something I should aspire to?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I was never normal, but I liked to pretend that I was. It usually took a few months before everyone else caught on.” — Mara Purnhagen Copy Share Image
“Normal is how you perceive normal, not what others tell you is normal.” — Sean Thomas Copy Share Image
“I would never have normal in my life. I didn’t want normal in my life.” — Estelle Ryan Copy Share Image
“If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Anyway, who’d ever want to be totally normal? Imagine having no quirks or idiosyncrasies. It’s what makes us us.” — Sarah Rayner Copy Share
“I’m not quite sure what a normal life is. Surely everyone’s life is normal to them?” — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I tried to appear more normal than I was, so that those around me wouldn’t think I was less normal than I was, and… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
“And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Gov. Romney says he's against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as… — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make… — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
“It’s not like I woke up one morning, cracked my knuckles and thought, All right, time to pick a sexuality.” — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
“...a dozen hands engaged in hard, charitable work will change more lives than thousands of hands clasped in prayer.” — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
“We should NOT try to change other peoples' systems against their wills, and we should not inflict our systems on others if such infliction… — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character. — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
