Spivak Feminist Quotes & Sayings

Not a very pretty world, is it?"
"Which one? — Andrew Smith

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Mignon McLaughlin

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it. — Anders Ericsson

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it." — N. T. Wright

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name. — Ricardo Sanchez

Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it. — Terry Pratchett

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer. — Anupam Kher

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. — Sylvia Plath

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem. — Robert Guillaume

Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies. — Jodi Picoult