Rachel Simmons Quotes
As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable 'good girl,' they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships - and what people think of them - at all costs.
Quotes to Explore
-
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
-
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
-
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
-
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
-
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
-
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
-
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
-
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
-
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
-
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
-
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
-
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
-
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
-
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
-
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
-
I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.
-
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
-
As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable 'good girl,' they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships - and what people think of them - at all costs.
