1980s Androgyny Quotes & Sayings

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays. — Richard C. Armitage

Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value. — Jenny Shipley

Then meditate on your perceptions. The Buddha observed, "The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous." You see a snake in the dark and you panic, but when your friend shines a light on it, you see that it is only a rope. You have to know which wrong perceptions cause you to suffer. Please write beautifully the sentence, "Are you sure?" on a piece of paper and tape it to your wall. Love meditation helps you learn to look with clarity and serenity in order to improve the way you perceive. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may. — Alexis Arquette

Peace is not the absence of agony
But the presence of joy of harmony — Debasish Mridha

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.' — Betty Friedan

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are. — Hannah Storm

This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like. — Amanda Grace

Making a true decision, unlike saying, "I'd like to quit smoking," is cutting off any other possibility. In fact, the word "decision" comes from the Latin roots de, which means "from," and caedere, which means "to cut." Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility. When you truly decide you'll never smoke cigarettes again, that's it. It's over! You no longer even consider the possibility of smoking. — Anthony Robbins

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; — Robert Louis Stevenson

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. — Erma Bombeck