Emily Martin Quotes

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Emily Martin

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• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

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• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

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• I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.

  

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• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

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• Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

  

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• Web GIS provides us with a whole new window into our information through applications that are easy, 3D, and analytic. These applications are not just casual things, but reach deep into geographic knowledge and apply it.

  

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• My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

  

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• The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  

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• Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.

  

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• #BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

  

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

  

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• Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

  

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• Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

  

  Emily Martin