“I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.” PeopleThinkingPersonsIdeasRealityForeverCrazyGoes OnNormalAverageInsaneConsumedAverage Person Author:Youth Lagoon
“One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.” Has BeensProblemUsedCompanyProductsMonthsGoes OnDiseaseNormalNotionCancerLovelySellingConsumersBreastsGesturesBreast CancerSelling Products Author:Jennifer Beals
“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.” PeopleThinkingStoriesCoursesBrainWonderMoralSunDangerWallGoes OnCivilizationNormalSickDressesWesternUntrueWestern CivilizationAccusingOff The WallAccusing Me Author:Marilyn Manson
“On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.” IfsFeelsThreeHoursKnownAirGoes OnConversationNormalDrawsHeavySentencesBlockSlipsBiasCurtainsSwearingProfaneOne SentenceBroadcastersDrapes Author:Dick Enberg
“You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!” PeopleWayMeanI CanRealStageFrontsGoes OnNormalGuitarGoing OutJeansPremises Author:David Bowie
“I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.” CareHouseStuffAnswersPayFansDogGoes OnQuietNormalClothesLettersBillsMeetingsTake CareBoardsMailPacksFilesWashingBoard Meetings Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.” LooksFeelingsFineGoes OnInvolvedNormalMessGet Involved Author:Domenico Gnoli
“In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.” MeanChildrenKidsLawFunCan DoFiguresGoes OnProtectNormalOur ChildrenPressesBritishLondonBritainCentreTubesProtect YouNormal Things Author:Gwyneth Paltrow