Jean O'Leary Quotes

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Jean O'Leary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 4, 1948 - June 4, 2005

Topics

PeopleGayOppressionEssenceGoing

Style is character.

Joan Didion

CharacterStyle

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

Jessica Valenti

BestChildBuildingParentMagic

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

LifeEducationPreparationItself

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Steve Jurvetson

LifeGoodPeopleThinkGood Life

I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, 'We have a feed from the moon. We've got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.'

Roger Ailes

HistoryMoonThinkingI CanEarth

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Mary Wesley

PeopleGardenYoungYoung People

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Michael McKean

ThinkEndHelpYouKindDeaf

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

Clifford D. Simak

LifePurposeMeSpeakEarthSeems

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

Anne Heche

HardComplexPart

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

GeniusWayMoreLittleThanMeans

People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'

Thomas McGuane

PeopleInfluenceHurtFeelingsPark

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

Niki Taylor

LiveHappyYouTryRuleMakes

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