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

• Sexism
• 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

• When you practice the stances of karate, be sure to keep your back straight, lower your shoulders, put strength in your legs, stand firmly, and drop your energy into your lower abdomen.

  

  Anko Itosu
  • Energy
  • Practice
  • Abdomen

• 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

• I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Stupid
  • Found
  • Make Sense

• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  

  David G. McAfee
  • Nature
  • Opinion
  • Ancient

• 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