Jill Soloway Quotes

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Jill Soloway

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• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Firsts
  • Blogs

• I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Amazing
  • Bruno Mars

• Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Change
  • Decisions

• By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mess
  • Mid-20s

• I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Good
  • Motivated
  • Something New

• Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

  

  F. R. Leavis
  • Experience
  • Quality
  • Poetry

• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  

  V. R. Krishna Iyer
  • Black
  • Dog
  • Police

• I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Desire
  • Defiance

• If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Attention
  • Tired

• What is and what is not create each other.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Create

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  

  John Milton
  • Silence
  • Bird
  • Beast

• I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I’ve experienced and cultures that I don’t know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Know
  • Experiences
  • Do Not

• History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

  

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
  • Spirit
  • Subject
  • Studies

• The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Life
  • Creditors
  • Appearence

• I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character Porky Pig, couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Goal

• I want women to be the subject, not the object.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Subjects
  • Objects