Iris Marion Young quotes

Iris Marion Young quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality”
-- Iris Marion Young

Source : Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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“If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.”
-- Iris Marion Young

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“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”
“Motherhood changes everything.”

Source : Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.
“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”
“There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.”
“The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'”
“All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial
“Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.”
“We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.”
“Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.”
“I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.”

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