21 quotes found
“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
“I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”
“People don't want other people to be people.”
“I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.”
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.”
“I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.”
“This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.”
“If theres anything Ive learned from polyamory, its that the quickest way to destroy a relationship is to try to make it into something its not, to force it into a box that it doesnt really fit in, ...”
“Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.”
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're whi...”
“If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.”
“We tend to treat labels as real, rather than as representations of reality”
“I used to worry about the labels others placed on me until I realized my limitations werent coming from their labels, but from my own.”
“People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the ...”
“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
“If there’s anything I’ve learned from polyamory, it’s that the quickest way to destroy a relationship is to try to make it into something it’s not, to force it into a box that it doesn’t really fit...”
