Sarah Dessen Quotes

Golf is elitist, it's stuffy, it's exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I'm still not welcomed in.

In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point.

I don't want to be elitist.

Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.

If you're not in my immediate circle, you're not someone whose opinion I value.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.