Freebairn And Company Quotes & Sayings

They [heterosexual cis women] are accepted in the straight mainstream way more readily than I [trans woman] will ever be. But they are marginalized in their day-to-day lives because they are feminine. To argue that they are reinforcing the binary, or the patriarchy or the hegemonic gender system, because they are conventional feminine (as opposed to subversively feminine) essentially implies that they are enabling their own oppression. This is just another variation of the claim that rapists make when they insinuate that the woman in question was 'asking for it' because of what she was wearing or how she behaved. — Julia Serano

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev

I want my music to leave an indelible mark. — Roger Miller

I love this city [Tel Aviv]! — Missy Elliot

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body — Bret Easton Ellis

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history. — Maya Angelou

All art is propaganda ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else ... I want to use my art as a weapon. — Diego Rivera