Mysogynoir Quotes & Sayings

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do. — John Ortberg

I will bear this pain for you," he swore. "If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It'll always be me. — Larissa Ione

I Can't Quit You Baby
I can't quit you babe
Woman I think I'm gonna put you down for a little while
I can't quit you babe
I ... think I'm gonna put you down for a while
I said you messed up my happy home
Made me mistreat my only child
You built my hopes so high
Baby then you let me down so low
You built my hopes so high then ya let me down ... so low
Don'tcha realize sweet baby?
Woman I don't know ... which way to go
Woman I can't quit you babe
I think I'm gonna put you down for a while — Led Zeppelin

In the fifteenth century the Pope deeded the entire western hemisphere to Spain and Portugal and nobody paid the slightest attention to the fact that the real estate was already occupied by several million Indians with their own laws, customs, and notions of property rights. His grant deed was pretty effective, too. Take a look at a western hemisphere map sometime and notice where Spanish is spoken and where Portuguese is spoken - and see how much land the Indians have left. — Robert A. Heinlein

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap." — Leo Errera

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. — Michael Josephson

The best investment shall be to find your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are some things even magic can't fix. — Chris Pavesic

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all? — Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill. — Eric Balfour

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective. — Norman Jewison

As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, projected as inherent and therefore precluding any possibility of innocence, the black female body was beyond redemption." She points out that since the time of U.S. slavery, men have benefited from positioning black women as naturally promiscuous because it absolves them of guilt when they sexually assault and rape women of color. "[I]t was impossible to ruin that which was received as inherently unworthy, tainted, and soiled," hooks wrote.
Women of color, low-income women, immigrant women- these are the women who are not seen as worthy of being placed on a pedestal. It's only our perfect virgins who are valuable, worthy of discourse and worship. — Jessica Valenti

The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children. — Diana Gabaldon

Live a life as a monument to your soul. — Ayn Rand

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. — Jean Paul