Rae Spoon quotes

“The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.”
-- Rae Spoon

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“I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.”
-- Rae Spoon

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“I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a lot of work in public schools, and I want those young women and girls to see every kind of she there can be. I want them to see my biceps and my shorn hair and shirt and tie and for some of them to see me as a possibilityI want them to see me living outside of the boxes, because they might be asphyxiating in their own box and need to see there is air out here for them to breathe, that all they have to do is lift the lid a little.”
-- Rae Spoon

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“Being a girl was something that never really happened for me,”
-- Rae Spoon

Source : Ivan E. Coyote, Rae Spoon (2014). “Gender Failure”, p.21, Arsenal Pulp Press

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“We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.”

“Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.”

“I watch a lot of television. I always have.”

“And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.”

“We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.”

Source : "Postcards from the edge" by Martin Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

“I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.”

“The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House

“The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe”

“Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.”