Martha Stewart Quotes

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

Many of us were raised with the 'be a lady' thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and strip you out of opportunity and power.

Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

I do think it's unfair for women who get pegged with creating fare for other women.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.

I'm at Stoke, I'm enjoying it, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be discriminated against just because who I play for.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.