Staceyann Chin Quotes

#1. I'm a woman. That means I break hard. And mend like a motherfucker; all sexy and full of heartbreakingly beautiful scars.

Staceyann Chin

#2. Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back
on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot
be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that
some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one
technique is quintessential.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#3. I know I'm not sexy. In high school I was voted Most Likely to Masturbate.

Rodney Dangerfield

#4. It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.

Staceyann Chin

#5. What I'm sayin' is shit happens to couples. In any relationship there's ebbs and there's flows. You want that relationship to work, you put on your life jacket and ride it out.

Kristen Ashley

#6. I sit in the rocking chair and sway back and forth. The movement calms me. The range of motion is limited. Confined. It fits in a box.

Jessica Brody

#7. Education was central to reporting.

David Halberstam

#8. Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

Staceyann Chin

#9. I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

Staceyann Chin

#10. I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
If we do not speak, who will?

Staceyann Chin

#11. Miles of junk to throw out
how do you decide what to keep when everything is sentiment.

Staceyann Chin

#12. I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

Bobby Keys

#13. There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.

Staceyann Chin

#14. She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no.

Liane Moriarty

#15. God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#17. What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

Staceyann Chin

#18. I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.

Staceyann Chin

#19. Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

Staceyann Chin

#20. I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Billie Jean King

#21. I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.

Staceyann Chin

#22. I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

Patrick Marber

#23. I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.

Staceyann Chin