#cho

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #gay #help #high #high school

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents. ↗

— Dan Savage

#being #bullied #cry #experience #freely

I don't like to think about what school was like for me. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #like #me #school #think

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids. ↗

— Dan Savage

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #eye #gay

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. ↗

— Dan Savage

#death #disease #high #high school #life

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better. ↗

— Dan Savage

#chicago #could #eyes #fringe #gay

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices. ↗

— Fred Savage

#because #cannot #choices #control #crazy

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#course #developed #experimenting #get #habit