Quotes About Intersectionality

#1. Intersectionality means being aware of and acting on the fact that different forms of prejudice are connected, because they all stem from the same root of being 'other', 'different' or somehow 'secondary' to the 'normal', 'ideal' status quo.

Laura Bates

#2. When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.

Erik Larson

#4. I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Tamara Ecclestone

#5. I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

Steven Tyler

#6. Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. That's where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.

Kristen Simmons

#7. That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales ...

Tony Kushner

#8. My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

Francis Chan

#9. As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Audre Lorde

#10. The main point about civility is ... the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

Zygmunt Bauman

#11. When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Vince Lombardi

#12. Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

Milton Friedman

#13. There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

T. S. Eliot

#14. I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.

Jojo Moyes

#15. You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

Andrea Gibson

#16. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

#17. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Lance Armstrong