“I think you can't dip your toe in and dip your toe out. I think either you're in it or you're not.” Quote by Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I think the best conversation to have been able to eavesdrop on was the one the minute after it was called that Trump would be the next president of the Unites States. Because by all indications, it does not seem anybody thought they were going to win. That is the moment I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. Or, like, in the microwave, whatever.” ThinkingMomentsWinningWishPresidentWall Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“President Obama really just let all of us genuinely be who we were and didn't expect — I'm goofy. And so for him, he just never expected us to be any different than who we were and he wanted us to always give our opinions. He is not the kind of person who wanted to sit around and be told he was right all the time. Especially if he wasn't. And I think that seeing that in him made us all take that away with us.” ThinkingGivingKindDifferentPresidentOpinionPresident ObamaGoofy Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're sort of the opposite of my book. And I think that so many people want to write a book that sort of memorializes their place in history. And I wanted to write something for all of the women who are like me. I grew up in upstate New York, I graduated high school with 70 other people and didn't ever know that anything like this would have really been an option for me. So I wanted other young women — and men — to know that just being you is plenty.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingBookSchoolHouseHigh SchoolMen And WomenPlentyYoung Women Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate their courage. So much of the legislation that's happening across the world right now is not about bathrooms. It's about whether or not trans people have the right to exist in public and that's horrible. So many of our leaders are making an effort to erase trans people from our society and that angers me so much. I want to do everything in my power to stop that.” PeopleWorldHumanityEffortLeaderDignityHorribleCelebrateAcknowledgeBathroomErase Author:Jeff Varner
“Many people don't have trans people in their lives. They don't have that experience to know that they're just normal people who not only want to exist but want to rise. We should all do everything we can to help them.” PeopleHelping Author:Jeff Varner
“Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.” PeopleLostFunWonderLateNewspapersGaietyUncouthRibald Author:Russell Baker
“People should step back and realize we’re all humans. We all have our own individual obstacles. Who in the hell are we to throw obstacles in other people's paths to make their lives harder? It's a horrible commentary on who we are as humans and I hope this can be the beginning of changing that.” PeopleIndividualRealizingHellPathObstaclesHorrible Author:Jeff Varner
“We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but they’re also racist and they’re sexist. Because we’re all brought up in the middle of that, whether we want to admit it or not, we’re all on some level racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic. It makes it difficult for other people when we turn a blind eye to it. We don’t agree with the laws that are going, but we don’t vote against them. We don’t like what our leaders are doing, but we don’t pick up the phone and call them. We don’t stand up and protest.” PeopleEyeDifficultLeaderVoteAgreeBlindProtestRacistSexistHomophobic Author:Jeff Varner
“If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.” Mean Author:Smokey Robinson
“Without you hearing a melody or music or anything like that, it would say something to you. So, that's what a song is to me. Now, you have a lot of songs that come out, and the beat carries them over there, because of the beat, and because of some other factors and so on and so forth. But I want mine to be a song, if you read it, it's going to mean something to you.” MeanSongMelody Author:Smokey Robinson