Mohanty Chandra Quotes & Sayings

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

My mom told me she thinks a man in the market felt her up today. I asked, Where did he touch you? She said, On my knee, Bobby. — Bob Saget

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

We have way better nazi flags than THAT one. — Burnie Burns

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. — Henry Ward Beecher

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. — Fred Armisen

She looked like she was having the time of her life. — Airicka Phoenix

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity ... its Bible, its churches, its dogma
only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual. — Craig Thompson

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction. — Lionel Tiger

You should have read the directions before you showed up to the party. — Charlie Sheen

Dive from a high platform, walk a country lane, watch your computer freeze, cross a finish line, hear your morning alarm, look for a parking space, toast on your anniversary, embrace a friend after a funeral. As you live your life, what do you feel? Terror, serenity, frustration, relief, groaning reluctance, patient endurance, pride, satisfaction, or a grief made bearable because somehow life will go on. We experience life as feelings. — Donald Maass