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Kate Bornstein

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm ...
JAMES HILLMAN
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
KATE BORNSTEIN
At this time in history, there is a lot of emphasis on religion and science. There is also a growing...
GREG FIELDS
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each othe...
DOROTHY ALLISON
For example, as a white woman, I'm shaped by my class, my gender, my race, my sex. My life is shaped...
ABBY FERBER
Political Correctness is a form of cowardice which allows for the evasion of both asking and answeri...
TROY J. GAINEY
The Rockland runner is very good and Kate stayed with her the whole race. Kate is so consistent. I c...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY
What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their com...
JAKE LEHMAN
Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...
ASA DON BROWN
Hospitality knows no gender or race.
DANNY MEYER
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it...
REBECCA SOLNIT
The looks of the disorder are different across age and gender.
DONNA PALUMBO
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as...
W. H. AUDEN
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as...
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
This is an extraordinary and blatant display of judicial activism.
KAY DALY
This is not activism. This is a group of lawless thugs attacking innocent men, women and children.
CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIE
It crosses all racial and gender and age boundaries, which I think is fantastic.
GENEVIEVE GORDER
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan...
KATE BORNSTEIN
And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that ma...
KATE BORNSTEIN
It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id...
KATE BORNSTEIN
We are here because what we want, who we love and how we feel has an effect on the amount of power w...
KATE BORNSTEIN
I knew it was a big responsibility, and it was brave of them to bring in a freak like me. I really w...
KATE BORNSTEIN
Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age... Humour is universal.
JEREMY LLOYD
Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twe...
SHIV KHERA
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of some...
AMOR TOWLES
the issue of race and class that has become the clear and convincing issue in this tragedy.
HARTFORD COURANT
I told my class the other day I have no idea what judicial activism is, ... Maybe the best definitio...
LEE EPSTEIN
This is something that can affect all of us, regardless of age, sex, race, or sexual orientation.
COLIN DOYLE
Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS
On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have...
WIDAD AKREYI
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over ...
JOHN DALBERG
The message of this movie is not only that our kids are smarter than adults, but it's our world that...
JIMMY BUFFETT
Our businesses should be hiring on accomplishments and merit, not race or gender.
JENNIFER GRATZ
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and...
RODRIGO DUTERTE
There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or di...
SHARRON ANGLE
Addressing the imbalance between male and female advocates, and ensuring that all advocates are prov...
JUSTICE KIRBY
My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said ‘Rainbow’.... and I was punished to stand out of ...
SAKET ASSERTIVE
Everyone can bowl. It's not age or gender specific.
GAIL RICHARDS
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that l...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch...
KELLY MILLER
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
KARA WALKER
Summers committed the cardinal sin against the academic hard left. He expressed politically incorrec...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
ORSON WELLES
This higher risk was seen across the board, regardless of age, race, marital status and level of edu...
ANDREA P. MACKAY
Activism is a Way of Life
AMOS OZ
The play contains some very frank discussion of sexuality, including gay sexuality, and Churchill ma...
ANDREA URICE
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHT
Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catchin...
ORHAN PAMUK
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
ALICE WALKER
We also found that injuries related to wearing glasses vary by age and gender.
HUIYUN XIANG
This is the quintessential case of shareholder activism, and we can thank the Gilberts for it,
CHARLES ELSON
This is the quintessential case of shareholder activism, and we can thank the Gilberts for it.
CHARLES ELSON
I don't see gender(unless it involves sex), race, or nationality; just assholes and non assholes.
TYLER V. COHEN
More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ...
CHRIS HEDGES
The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
'Suits' fans. I've never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It'...
DAVID COSTABILE
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based ineq...
SARAH CHURCHWELL
I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the ...
SOPHIA BUSH
This rainbow is beautiful,but i shall snap it tomorrow,& you know what? Rainbow appears once in a wh...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Exc...
ANITA HILL
Katrina showed America that race and class matters,
CHARLES BARRON
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equa...
CONNOR FRANTA
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms ...
GORDON BROWN
We liked her before we ever started her the first time. She's got a lot of class, a lot of heart. Th...
BRET CALHOUN
Although every citizen celebrates their diversity regardless of race, religion, tribe, caste, gender...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH
[Historian] Kevin Starr has written that "the San Diego free speech battles revealed the depths of r...
JUSTIN AKERS CHACóN
I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT
This is a true fine arts show, not an arts and crafts show. In the scope of today's world, fine art ...
JENNY TAYLOR
We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
DILLON BURROUGHS
Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amount...
ANDY WEBSTER
Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above ever...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Poetry is one piece of my creative thought embedded by my mother at a young age by her love of arts ...
LEAH DANCEL
We all know that the vice president is a world-class debater, ... We think that the pressure in this...
KAREN HUGHES
The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith,...
MONICA CROWLEY
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, languag...
PRESTON MANNING
What it says, very clearly, is you cannot discriminate on the basis of race, or ethnicity, or gender...
PETE WILSON
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN
Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is
crucial not only for enhanc...
CAROLYN BAKER
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it...
SPIKE LEE
Kate smirked.
"What?"
"Your horse looks pink."
"So?"
"If you paste some stars on...
ILONA ANDREWS
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at wi...
JOHN PODHORETZ
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his r...
JOHN STUART MILL
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
OSCAR WILDE
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true whe...
NAZANIN BONIADI
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic o...
KATHLEEN BLANCO
It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated speciali...
MARK TWAIN
This was a world-class field. We came away from the race knowing that we have a car that is capable ...
MICHAEL COLUCCI

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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s...
KATE CHOPIN
No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha...
KATE CAPSHAW
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
KATE CAPSHAW
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that...
KATE CAPSHAW
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my...
KATE BUSH
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH
I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
KATE BUSH
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
KATE BUSH
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U...
KATE BUSH
I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr...
KATE BUSH
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b...
KATE BUSH
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in...
KATE BUSH