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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them Picture Quote #1

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers Picture Quote #1

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian Picture Quote #1

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way Picture Quote #1

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time Picture Quote #1

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice Picture Quote #1

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Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society Picture Quote #1

I know there is strength in the differences between us, and I know there is comfort where we overlap Picture Quote #1

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot Picture Quote #1

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong Picture Quote #1

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went Picture Quote #1

And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range Picture Quote #1

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But what if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if there's no time to lose? What if there's things we gotta do, Things that need to be said? Picture Quote #1

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers Picture Quote #1

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend Picture Quote #1

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about Picture Quote #1

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything Picture Quote #1

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to Picture Quote #1

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That awkward moment when you're showing someone an old photo of you and you're wearing the same shirt as in the photo Picture Quote #1

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family Picture Quote #1

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government Picture Quote #1

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you Picture Quote #1

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it Picture Quote #1

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself Picture Quote #1

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One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job Picture Quote #1

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration Picture Quote #1

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us Picture Quote #1

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. But few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters Picture Quote #1

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning Picture Quote #1

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood Picture Quote #1

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them (We Quotes) Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers (We Quotes) Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian (We Quotes) Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way (We Quotes) Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time (We Quotes) Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice (We Quotes) Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society (We Quotes) I know there is strength in the differences between us, and I know there is comfort where we overlap (We Quotes) Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot (We Quotes) When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong (We Quotes) There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went (We Quotes) And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range (We Quotes) But what if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if there's no time to lose? What if there's things we gotta do, Things that need to be said? (We Quotes) Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers (We Quotes) Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend (We Quotes) I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about (We Quotes) No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything (We Quotes) One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to (We Quotes) That awkward moment when you're showing someone an old photo of you and you're wearing the same shirt as in the photo (We Quotes) However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family (We Quotes) The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government (We Quotes) There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you (We Quotes) We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it (We Quotes) We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself (We Quotes) One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job (We Quotes) By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration (We Quotes) Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us (We Quotes) We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. But few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters (We Quotes) Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning (We Quotes) Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood (We Quotes)

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