Urvashi Vaid Quotes
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
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I like boys with humor.
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From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.
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The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
