Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

James Sturm

I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,

Brandon Sanderson

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jamie Farr

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Jane Campion

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

Bobby Riggs

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

Doris Lessing

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Ani Difranco

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Andrea Dworkin

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

Andrea Dworkin

We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

Andrea Dworkin

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

Dolores Huerta

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

Anita Sarkeesian

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

John Stuart Mill

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Mariella Frostrup

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

Florence King

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

Gina Torres

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

Germaine Greer

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Sandra Bernhard

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.