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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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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