Institutionally Deemed Quotes & Sayings

One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated. — Dean Spade

Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha! — Dane Cook

That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul. — Mirah

When you love, dear girl, you give another the power to hurt you. If you love deeply enough, you give another the power to destroy you. — George Bryan Polivka

In true prose everything must be underlined. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. — Ben Bernanke

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory
the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name. — Laura Miller

Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth. — Cindy Sheehan