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Favorite Quotes – Mario Savio

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 19, 2013
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

— Mario Savio

Favorite Quotes: White Dude Mating Calls

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 4, 2013
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes Feminism & Women's Issues

— from Women in Secularism 2: Breaking News: Even at WiS, we have to defend the purpose of WiS!

Thought for the week

Post author:HFM
Post published:February 15, 2013
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes

Instead of assuming that people are dumb, ignorant, and making mistakes, assume they are smart, doing their best, and that you lack context.

— Nicholas C. Zakas (@slicknet) February 10, 2013

This particular tweet has stuck in my head all week long because I need to remember it when I’m considering other folks and things they do that I don’t understand.

‘Actor’ Geena Davis in Denver: ‘Gender inequalities are deeply entrenched’

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 24, 2012
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes Feminism & Women's Issues

Denver Business Journal: ‘Actor’ Geena Davis in Denver: ‘Gender inequalities are deeply entrenched’.

“We had, ‘I Dream of Jeannie,’ and ‘Bewitched,’” she said, noting that the bulk of those shows was spent on the men trying to stop the women from using their magical powers.

“This happened in several of my marriages,” Davis said wryly.

Quotable

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 19, 2012
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes Movies

Stephanie, on why she doesn’t want to see Titanic in 3-D:

I thought it was overhyped in the first place. And at the scene were the ship hits the iceberg, and the guy says “How long do we have?!” I looked at my watch and said “You have an hour and a half.”

Personal Truth

Post author:HFM
Post published:November 12, 2011
Post category:Books Favorite Quotes Writing

I’ve posted this quote before, but it came up in conversation recently, and I was struck again by how very beautiful it is.

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude:

“My own belief is that one regards oneself, if one is a serious writer, as an instrument for experiencing. Life–all of it–flows through this instrument and is distilled through it into works of art. How one lives as a private person is intimately bound into the work. And at some point, I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth. If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and artist, we have to know all we can about one another, and we have to be willing to go naked.”