“I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.”
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“She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.”
“society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.”
“Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.”
“If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.”
“For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.”
“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”
“Laws are not made for the good.”
“What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.”
“The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion”
“I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?”
“If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.”
“Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.”
“What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.”
“Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.”
“I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”
“Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.”
“Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.”
“Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.”