Gendering In Character Quotes & Sayings

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way. — Barack Obama

It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them. — Amanda Coplin

She gave him books of poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, all the W's. When she'd ask him how he liked them, he would say, "Fine. I'm on page ... " and then he would tell her what page he was on and how many pages he'd accomplished that day. — Lorrie Moore

I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development. — William Thurston

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind. — Frederick Lenz

first, that in a counterinsurgency campaign, the top priority is not to kill the enemy but to protect the population from enemy intimidation. This was a dramatic change from U.S. policy — John A. Nagl

My books are my confessions. — Clive Barker

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society. — Ella T. Grasso

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. — Bette Davis