“There are still so many misconceptions out there, including that gays come from bad families. Maybe I don't completely change people's minds, but I make them think twice.” PeopleThinkingMindStillsGayIncludingMisconceptionThink Twice Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones
“It certainly makes people question why a man who talks about family values all the time doesn't seem to care that his own sister, not to mention thousands of other Americans, can lose her job just because of her sexual orientation.” PeopleMenSeemsCareJobsValuesLosesOrientationAbout FamilyFamily Values Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones
“I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?” ThinkingWritingMeanDoeFiguresLife Means Author:Susan Faludi
“The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.” ViewsFeministMakeupBowsRibbonsInsistenceFrills Author:Susan Faludi
“It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.” IfsWayWantIdeasFineFemaleDressesDotsRecoilPolkaPolka Dots Author:Susan Faludi
“I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.” QualitySpecialSuperiorsNurturingCooperatives Author:Susan Faludi
“Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.” FallCommunismGentlemanLadies And Gentlemen Author:Jack Kemp
“My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.” ViewsGenerationsNotionFeministGenderActivistBetter OffDroppingTransTheoristsContinuumBinary Author:Susan Faludi
“Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.” ComplicatedGenderIndividualistic Author:Susan Faludi
“Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.” RealSelfProblemGovernmentPastNationsDifficultDarkJewHonestlyReactionariesConfrontingMigrantsScapegoatHungaryGrapplingDifficult Problems Author:Susan Faludi