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All Quotes Collection
"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."
44
"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
49
"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
44
"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."
37
"Optimism is the foundation of courage."
41
"America is the best half-educated country in the world."
31
"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"
33
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
27
"Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts."
44
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
55
"What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way."
38
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
57
"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility."
39
"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."
39
"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."
54
"In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."
12
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
20
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing."
14
"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
19
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
54
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
18
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
15
"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."
24
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
18
"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
55
"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
21
"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."
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