Shocking Sayings

1,057 sayings found from the Contemporary era

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

— Gloria Steinem Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves di…

— Gloria Steinem Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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Women are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (But too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry)

— Gloria Steinem Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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You're saying, no, state marriage [is] the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2013
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy th…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2009
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown (post-2010)
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Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown (post-2013)
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The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'W…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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Abortion prohibition by the State controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men. The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for her…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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I remember envying the boys long before I even knew the word 'feminism,' because I liked shop better than cooking or sewing.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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Of course [we're in love]. Whatever 'in love' means.

— Princess Diana 1981
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He said: 'Will you marry me?' and I laughed. I remember thinking, 'This is a joke,' and I said: 'Yeah, OK,' and laughed. He was deadly serious. He said: 'You do realize that one day you will be queen.' And a voice said to me inside: 'You won't be que…

— Princess Diana 1991-1992
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The night before the wedding I was very, very calm, deathly calm. I felt I was a lamb to the slaughter. I knew it and couldn't do anything about it.

— Princess Diana 1991-1992 (referring to her 1981 wedding)
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As I was walking down the aisle of St. Paul's on my father's arm, I thought, 'What on Earth am I doing here?'

— Princess Diana 1981
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Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

— Princess Diana 1995
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Charles must be wearing beer goggles to have an affair with Camilla.

— Princess Diana Unknown (prior to 1997)
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People think that, at the end of the day, a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

— Princess Diana 1995
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I don't think I was happy... I think [it was] the worst day of my life.

— Princess Diana 1992 (referring to 1981 wedding)
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The day I walked down the aisle at St. Paul's Cathedral, I felt that my personality was taken away from me, and I was taken over by the royal machine.

— Princess Diana 1995
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