Janet Mock Quotes

Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.

Janet Mock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

MeHairGenderEnjoyWayPrevail

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Joe Cocker

PeopleControlYouLoseKnowKind

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

John Burnside

NatureLearningLiveTimeSoilWill

Kate Mara is actually one of my really good friends.

Jenna Dewan

GoodFriendsGood FriendsActually

On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.

Stormzy

LifeGoodI AmStepConfidentSay

Life comes before the business.

Rory O'Malley

LifeBusinessBefore

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

Robert Winston

ChildrenResearchUnderstandingNow

I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.

Michael Spiller

ThinkWeekPersonSameAverageOut

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Be KindMenBrotherYouKindShame

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Richard Attenborough

LifeI AmMy LifePunishmentBeen

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

Mark Batterson

LifeTragedyGoGreatestPrayers

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

Mark O'Donnell

CharacterParentsYouWriteWell

I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.

Lindsay Duncan

FamilyLoveNew YorkGenerosityFeel

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