Nonconforming Quotes

#1. This chapter reviews the knowledge and practice that social workers need to establish beginning competency in working with transgender and gender nonconforming persons.

Gerald P. Mallon

#2. The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

Hugo Black

#3. It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

Judith Butler

#4. Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.

Sheila Jeffreys

#5. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

Emma Watson

#7. You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

Samuel Goldwyn

#8. I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!

Robin Wright

#9. It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

Damon Galgut

#10. The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Kurt Vonnegut