Kavita Ramdas Quotes
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Few dogs were around anymore. Some had been eaten during the hunger that followed the flu in the spring of that year. People didn't talk about it, it was so demoralizing.
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In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained.
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.