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Quote by Amber Hollibaugh

“In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.”

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Amber Hollibaugh is an American writer born in 1946. Her works cover a range of topics including gender, sexual orientation, and identity, known for her insightful analysis and critical thinking. more

“To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.”

“If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.”

People Ifs Dream Fighting Privilege Solitary

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“In Pakistan politics is hereditary.”

Sports Pakistan Hereditary

Author:Imran Khan

“In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing to be dealing with if you're in the midst of a conversation where the recession profoundly impacts you at the same time because people say well, "Really? What's your issue? I mean you all have money. You all have access."”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.”

Ifs Want Support Campaigns Corporations Minimum Mayors Minimum Wage Living Wage

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.”

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Author:Future

“Everybody just needs a second chance.”

Needs Chance Second Chance

Author:Future

“We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

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