Category Archives: Quotable Notables

Quotable: Samantha Bee on untested rape kits

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

“Remember, local elections are a lot like rape kits. No one really wants to pay attention to them, but if you bother to open them up, you might just get rid of someone who’s been screwing everyone in town.”

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Quotable: Nina Simone on revolutionary “girl talk”

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Annie Lennox on feminism

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Dorothy Parker on feminism

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Eduardo Galeano on Adam and Eve

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sabina Becker

In honor of International Women’s Day, the late great Uruguayan literary wizard has a few pertinent words for us all: “If Eve had written Genesis, how would the human race’s first night of love have been? Eve would have begun … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Leslie Morgan Steiner on why women don’t leave abusers

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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Quotable: Edgar Mitchell on worldly problems

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Sabina Becker

RIP to the man who most memorably put the Earth’s problems in perspective. He died yesterday at the age of 85. He was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

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Quotable: Zora Neale Hurston on discrimination

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Oh, that Zora. Slaying two formidable vultures — racism AND sexism — with one stone.

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Quotable: David Bowie on drugs, sobriety, and surviving

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Sabina Becker

David Bowie reminisces about how he and Iggy Pop went to Berlin and lived there on and off for some three years while coming off drugs. According to the YouTuber who posted this (on the 11th): “The interview was recorded … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Will Rogers on trickle-down economics

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Sabina Becker
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