Evan Wolfson Quotes

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

Evan Wolfson

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Universe

• The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

  

  Win Butler
  • Up
  • Music
  • Funny

• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  

  Edward Thorndike

• To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • Feeling

• We've become a plastic society.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • Society

• People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • People

• I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • God
  • She
  • Remember

• The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

  

  Claude Nicollier
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Explore

• My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• I can't stop my comedic voice.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Stop

• In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • World
  • Poetry

• My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Together

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• In my nothing, you were everything, to me.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Freedom
  • Marriage
  • Denied