Janet Mock Quotes

It was through my hashtag #girlslikeus where I connected with other trans women on Twitter and Tumblr. We had challenging conversations, courageous personal revelations, and shared insights and experiences, and just had fun. The hashtag tethered me to many women in my community in impactful, lasting ways.

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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Community

• I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Exercise
  • Healthy
  • Physically

• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Career
  • Community

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Understand

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Despair the twin-born of devotion.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Twin

• Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Waiting
  • Please
  • Permission

• It was through my hashtag #girlslikeus where I connected with other trans women on Twitter and Tumblr. We had challenging conversations, courageous personal revelations, and shared insights and experiences, and just had fun. The hashtag tethered me to many women in my community in impactful, lasting ways.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Community