Ellen Kushner Quotes

I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

Ellen Kushner

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• Great men marry great women.

  

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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

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• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

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• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

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• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

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• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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• I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
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• The colors...oh, I see the most fantastic things. Do you realize when people just close their eyes what they see? It's unbelievable. Colors and things, forms of every sort. I wonder if that happens for everybody?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
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• Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

  

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• On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
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• My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

  

  James Wolk
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• Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.

  

  Donatella Versace
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• I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
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• In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

  

  Emma Stone
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• We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

  

  Maren Morris
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• Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

  

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• I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Women
  • Wonder
  • Insulting