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Privilege Quotes


"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."


"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."


"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."


"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."


"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."


"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."


"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."


"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
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