#entitle

When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected. Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both. Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#culture #entitlement #harassment #hypersexualization #rape

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia. ↗

— James Wolcott

#everyone #his #nostalgia #own

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#come #declare #entitled #happiness #i

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship. ↗

— Lactantius

#also #being #benefits #conferred #entitled

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#courtesy #door #entitled #felt #gives

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#entitled #feels #participate #pays #performer

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#american people #appointment #carefully #consider #court

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#announced #believe #consider #entitled #exactly

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american people #directly #entitled #hear #him

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. ↗

— Edward Norton

#academy awards #awards #because #been #budget