Nancy K. Miller Quotes
Feminism is what makes the role political, because mentorship means more than providing scholarly guidance and encouragement. It’s about demystifying one’s relationship to the institution. Helping younger women make their way is key, but so is acknowledging that the institution is corrupt.
Nancy K. Miller
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
Sally Quinn
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter F. Mondale
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
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
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
When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
Iris Apfel
When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
Tamara Ecclestone
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
Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
Olga Kurylenko
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
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
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.
AJ McLean
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.
Angela Davis
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
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
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
Caitlin Moran
But what more oft in nations grown corrupt,
And by their vices brought to servitude,
Than to love bondage more than liberty,
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
John Milton
