Womens Studies Quotes & Sayings

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to. — Eleanor Clift

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower. — Georges Braque

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive v the crown of life, — Anonymous

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'. — Douglas Coupland

It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once. — Sarah Dessen

She breathed slowly, searching for words. "You've set me free, and I can't be caged again. — Laura Bacchi

That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey

When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community. — Aurin Squire

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear. — Vashti Bunyan

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey. — Ann Coulter

If something was natural, she supposed, it was the same for everybody. — Jostein Gaarder

In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

Segregation ... not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually ... It scars the soul ... It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than ... 'You are not equal to ... ' — Martin Luther King Jr.