Anna Quindlen Quotes

If we live in a society that is stuck in victimhood, we will have lots of victims.

'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors…. The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood/

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.

'Oppressed' is one of the terms that's very, very sellable and easily thrown around these days because everybody feels it, no matter what side you're on. We thrive on it. We're addicted to it.

Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.

It's not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.

To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

I would say more power to women who scream from the rooftop about something wrong done to them, whether it is after 10 years or 20 or 50... It doesn't make a difference.