#her

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ↗

— Bella Abzug

#chromosomes #hold #job #should #test

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#comedy #devastating #drama #fix #go

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#appear #camera #clothes #completely #did

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#people #rather #stories

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#country #different #ethnicity #fair #gender

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#day #enough #gathers #go #just

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#actually #any #each #easy #ever