Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes

The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Grace Held

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Career
  • Success

• For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Long
  • Concerned

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Digital

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Expression
  • Audiences

• I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • High
  • Society

• I love simplicity.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Simplicity

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Action

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Single

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • You
  • Give

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• I repeat the question, 'Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State Government?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question

• Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Job
  • Law

• I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

  

  Anne Campbell

• We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
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  • Men
  • Women