
Top 18 Paula Giddings Quotes
#1. Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.
'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.
Anita Diamant
#2. Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.
Robert Palmer
#3. Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.
Garcelle Beauvais
#4. I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage ... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom ... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
Paula Giddings
#5. Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.
Paula J. Giddings
#6. The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.
Jim Rohn
#7. If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.
Michelle Moore
#8. Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.
Michael Arrington
#9. Honour your core sexual values and express them directly
Miya Yamanouchi
#10. It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.
Paula Giddings
#11. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.
Fredrika Bremer
#12. Every night, no matter what has happened during the day, no matter if I am torn and bloodied or so bone-tired I wish I were dead, I look up at the stars and I give each star a brother's name or a sister's face. I will not sleep until I remember every one. The stars will burn out before I forget.
Cassandra Clare
#13. Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
Sebastian Junger
#14. The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.
Aimee Mullins
#15. Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.
Arjuna Ardagh
#16. Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
Giles Foden
#18. When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.
Joel Madden
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