Bechdel Test Quotes

#1. It's good to see you girls spending time together," she says. "It's good to have a life that passes the Bechdel test.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. 'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

Cary Fukunaga

#3. Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#4. Santa was a fake.

Stephen Lawrence

#5. I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Gary Kemp

#6. Part of having a social media strategy is being smart about whom you follow. Ask yourself who is important to your company or brand. Figure out who needs to know you exist.

Michelle Phan

#7. Everything fits, especially me with him, and him with me. He is the puzzle piece that slides into place in my heart, filling all the sad and empty spots inside me.

Lauren Blakely

#8. Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

Wendell Berry

#9. Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.

David Boies

#11. I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Jason Wu

#12. Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#13. World will be so beautiful without war.
Every child will grow up without fear.
Mother will smile; child will play.
Friendship will prosper all the way.
Love harmony and peace everywhere.
It is our hope for our great future.

Debasish Mridha

#14. So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren't human, but they were people, she told herself; it's not them, they're us. They

Philip Pullman

#15. Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Steven Wright

#16. It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

May Sarton

#17. So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.

D.H. Lawrence