#sm

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#expectations #facts #formal #journalism #kinds

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#anymore #being #criminal #drink #handicap

When the Majority of jokes made at the expense of trans people center on "men wearing dresses" or "men who want their penises cut off" that is not transphobia- it is trans-misogyny. When the majority of violence and sexual assaults omitted against trans people is directed at trans women, that is not transphobia- it is trans-misogyny. ↗

— Julia Serano

#gender #gender-equality #misogyny #transgender #transsexual

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination ↗

— Betty Friedan

#art

I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#smart #age

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#call #cannot #citizens #deprive #exercised

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood. ↗

— Walter Johnson

#any #harder #i #joe #listen

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#experience

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#bring #cosmos #country #deep #excited