Top 41 Florynce Kennedy Quotes
#1. Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
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#2. Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
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#3. [When asked by a male heckler, "Are you a lesbian?"]
Are you my alternative?
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#4. Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
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#5. Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Dorothy Thompson
#7. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull
#8. I was messing around with the harmonica ... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
Muddy Waters
#9. She came out of the bathroom a couple of minutes later, holding five sticks in one hand. She stared at them, horrified, like they were going to start calling her Mommy at any moment.
S.C. Stephens
#10. It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.
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#11. I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
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#12. We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
St. Jerome
#13. I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
Olga Kurylenko
#14. At my age ... I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.
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#15. Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...
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#16. You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.
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#17. There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
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#18. If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
#19. Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table ... Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust ... the whole place will be dirty again.
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#21. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?
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#22. Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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#23. The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
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#24. Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.
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#25. Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
William Butler Yeats
#26. I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.
David Wessel
#27. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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#28. Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Charles Koch
#29. Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.
April Gornik
#30. We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
Kallistos Ware
#31. I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.
Mike Royer
#32. I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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#33. Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.
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#34. You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.
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#35. When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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#37. All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#38. Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.
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#39. I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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#40. I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
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#41. Niggerization is the result of oppression
and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
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