Helen Garner Quotes

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.

As I get older and more tuned in to a community or an area, I see myself getting more involved. Not that I see myself running for office, but more involved in local issues.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

We are not apathetic in this country.

You should be reflective of the world you live in.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

I think it's very important of course that you're politically aware of what you do.

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.