Jocelynne Scutt quotes

“If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.”
-- Jocelynne Scutt

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“There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory... the future is not to be feared.”
-- Jocelynne Scutt

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“A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.”

“Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.”

“Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.”

“Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.”

“France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.”

Source : Francis Parkman (2004). “Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.26, Digital Antiquaria

“As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.”

Source : Joan Nestle (1987). “A restricted country: essays and short stories”