Florynce Kennedy Quotes

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  Si los hombres pudieran quedarse embarazados, el aborto sería un sacramento.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sex, Pregnancy, Men

  Quoted in Ms., Mar. 1973

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• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Fun, Winning

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• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Freedom, Ubuntu

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• It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Hombres, Ley, Dos

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Fitness Motivational, Sitting, Sin

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• Un juez vestido de mujer me dice que no puedo ejercer la abogacía en pantalones.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Here I Am, Law, Practice

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• When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

  Florynce Kennedy

  Unnecessary, Oppression, Individual

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• Don't agonize, organize.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Inspiring, Peace, Women

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• I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Self Esteem, People, Self Respect

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• Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Two, Feet, People

  "Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times".

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• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Doors, Unity, Movement

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• Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pigs, Eyelashes, Style

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• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Establecimiento

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• I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Teamwork, Fall, House

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• You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Ocean, Water, Cups

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• Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mother, Doe, Noble

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• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Oysters, Pearls

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Dirty, Struggle, Winning

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• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Crazy, Thinking, Feet

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Death, Hate, Thinking

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Time, Age, Want

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• There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pain, Suffering, Encounters

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• ... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Jobs, Cancer, Drinking

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Men, Fifty

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• The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Asking, Garbage, Lawyer

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