Petra Collins Quotes

To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

Petra Collins

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Home
  • Wine
  • Lunch

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Freedom
  • Simple
  • Tolerance

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Because
  • Selfish
  • Upset

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

  

  R. F. Delderfield
  • Life
  • Curious
  • Patterns

• Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Success
  • Night
  • Sleep

• The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Body
  • Blues
  • Floats

• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Patriotism
  • Idiocy
  • Pernicious

• Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Freedom
  • Perfect
  • Feet

• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Achieve
  • Suppose

• You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

  

  Z'EV
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Feminism