#ex

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#begins #doctor #emotional #females #girl

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#civil rights #comes #conflict #counted #decades

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#cases #commission #congress #extreme #hearings

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#both #boyfriend #ever #free #i

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ↗

— John Updike

#ecstasy #existence #experience #feel #feels

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#birthday party #emotionally #ever #exhausting #horrible

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. ↗

— John Updike

#extent #government #i #i love #least

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#distressing #extremely #me #nation #newest

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology. ↗

— Fred Upton

#array #best #broad #choices #deserve