Rowbotham Quotes

#1. You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing could be fairer than that, what?

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.

John Britt Daniel

#3. When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

Sheila Rowbotham

#4. Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Sheila Rowbotham

#5. I'm still here, in my body, and it hurts. I need to feel clean and soothed.

Megory Anderson

#6. The so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Sheila Rowbotham

#7. Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

Paul Valery

#8. The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith

#9. Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Sheila Rowbotham

#10. Ox bile and lipase are two other enzymes that may be taken when one has trouble digesting fats. Ox bile, available from Jarrow Formulas, is a must for anyone who has had his or her gallbladder removed.

Donna Gates

#11. Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam ... no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

Julia Quinn

#12. Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.

Sheila Rowbotham

#13. The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Yoko Ono

#14. A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Diane Kruger

#15. It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

Sheila Rowbotham

#16. So you don't really believe in love? I whispered. How could this be? I was crushed. It was like finding out the truth about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny in one sitting.

Robin Palmer

#17. There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Sheila Rowbotham

#18. In the final analysis we are our own betrayers.

Azar Nafisi

#19. For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

L. Frank Baum

#20. Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

Sheila Rowbotham

#21. In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

Sheila Rowbotham

#22. Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

Sheila Rowbotham

#23. From right now until forever, I'm going to show you what you are to me. I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to show you, because I've wasted too much time doing all the wrong things where you're concerned.

Kathryn Perez

#24. We want to stay with the animatronics because it gives you such a wonderful feel of Chucky's movement. It feels like something that has been brought to life, as opposed to a smooth piece of animation.

David Kirschner

#25. I'd just like to carry on acting.

Nicholas Hoult

#26. The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident

Leonardo Da Vinci