Quotes and Sayings About Pedestal
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The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
-- Wilma Scott Heide -
I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
-- Zaha Hadid -
I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.
-- Camille Henrot -
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
-- Dean Devlin -
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
-- Huda Sha'arawi -
Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.
-- Larry Siedentop -
It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.
-- Michael Clayton -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.
-- Samantha Bond
