Fazlalizadeh Quotes

#1. To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

Colin Hanks

#2. I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#3. Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#4. Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#5. With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#6. We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Olive Schreiner

#7. In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#8. Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

James Hervey

#9. I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

Thomas Sadoski

#10. I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#12. The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Guru Nanak

#13. I'll definitely pay attention to someone who is critiquing the artwork. But as far as someone not thinking street harassment is a big deal or that I'm being uptight? I don't think that's a valid critique.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#14. I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#15. Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. THAT ENERGY AND THAT BIT OF MASS CAME FROM YOU!

Lee Vickers

#17. Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.

George Reeves

#19. I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#20. Stop telling women to smile.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#21. Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Terry Pratchett

#22. I sat down and came up with a caption that I thought would fit well on the poster - something that was short and succinct but got a point across. The latest poster was a direct quote - it was exactly what the woman told me.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh