Hillary Clinton Quotes

In the chapter called "On Being a Woman in Politics," we have to come to grips with the endemic sexism and misogyny. Of course, it's not just in politics. It's in business. We have seen a lot of that coming out of Silicon Valley, and it's in the media, it's in culture. We know that.

Hillary Clinton

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• Misogyny
• On Being a Woman in Politics

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• I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Room
  • Poison
  • Sit

• Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Propositions

• Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Mean
  • Female
  • Singers

• I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Lucky
  • Grateful
  • Bittersweet

• When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

  

  Isaac Stern
  • Believe
  • Mountain
  • Move

• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Principles
  • Universal
  • Participation

• My hair is very straight - people always think that I've ironed it when I get to set.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • Hair

• When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Bullets

• Naming a game "Dodge that Anvil" is like naming a movie...well, "Snakes on a Plane." Which, yes, I am dying to see.

  

  Cliff Bleszinski
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Naming

• People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

  

  Francine Prose
  • People
  • Through
  • Obsessions

• Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Movies
  • Possibility
  • Fall In Love

• Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

  

  Alexander Moody Stuart
  • Voice
  • Comfort
  • Bring

• It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Time
  • Men
  • House

• Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Men
  • War
  • Individual

• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Attention
  • Problem
  • Style

• In the chapter called "On Being a Woman in Politics," we have to come to grips with the endemic sexism and misogyny. Of course, it's not just in politics. It's in business. We have seen a lot of that coming out of Silicon Valley, and it's in the media, it's in culture. We know that.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Sexism
  • Misogyny
  • On Being a Woman in Politics