Cheris Quotes

#1. Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you're killed by a knife in the back or a bullet?

Yoon Ha Lee

#2. The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris's ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.

Yoon Ha Lee

#3. I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward."

"The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.

Yoon Ha Lee

#4. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]

Marie Shear

#5. Taking away people's names denied their power, a lesson Cheris tried not to think about.

Yoon Ha Lee

#6. [Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

Cheris Kramarae

#7. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

B. J. Fogg

#8. Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Kevyn Aucoin

#9. Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.

Cheris Kramarae

#10. Jackson busied himself with the volunteers as they passed out flyers about the new voter ID laws that would go into effect in 2016 and signed up people to drive voters to the polls. Many of the elderly people they spoke to that morning were angry.

Cheris Hodges

#11. This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. 1 John 3:16

Beth Moore

#12. salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#13. She was not a poet. She was a poem.

Deborah Levy

#14. A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

Tariq Ali

#15. You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.

Paulette Jiles

#17. Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Eric S. Raymond

#18. Kali waved an impatient hand. "We can't have a pity party right now. I didn't bring the cake.

Cassidy Hunter

#19. An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Christopher Walken