Shirley Chisholm Quotes

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Shirley Chisholm

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005

Topics

PoliticsWomanBlackDiscrimination

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

LifeMy LifeNirvanaChangedHeard

My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.

Andreja Pejic

ChangeLiveWomanPastStartDream

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

John Moody

RelationshipConstructionConnection

If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

Angela Robinson

SayingLawyerGrowYouArtistWant

The early firings contained many stones.

Andy Goldsworthy

EarlyStonesManyContained

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

MeThinkVotingChoicePersonal

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.

Amity Gaige

WorkMindGeniusPerfectAfraid

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Shirley Jackson

WorkMyselfWritingFactsDislike

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

KnowledgeChildLoseHumanSomething

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Devon Sawa

TeacherSchoolMeMomSheKid

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

William Julius Wilson

CommunityPeopleBlackLaborSeem

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

William Gibson

WritingMoreBeenAutismInterested

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