Alice Dreger Quotes

Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

Alice Dreger

• Why
• Wonder

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Strong
  • Day
  • Strength

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Best
  • Building

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Man
  • Party
  • Day

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Worry
  • Less

• I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Art
  • Like
  • Wandering

• My closest friends today are, in fact, my friends from college.

  

  Vijay
  • Friends
  • Today
  • College

• If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Relationships
  • Page

• When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Think
  • Growing

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Many body events that you think of in your society as negative - certain viruses, for example - are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Society
  • Health

• I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

  

  Brian Michael Bendis
  • People
  • Smart
  • Independent

• I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Why
  • Wonder