Chandra Talpade Mohanty Quotes
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
Quotes to Explore
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
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God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
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I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.
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I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
