I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
Shirley MansonRead
Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.
Interpretation
Embracing one's age and experiences is a sign of strength and authenticity.
In this quote, Shirley Manson expresses pride in her age and experiences, rejecting any societal pressure to conceal them. She emphasizes the value of being alive and having lived through various stages of life, advocating for authenticity and courage in celebrating one's journey rather than feeling ashamed of it.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about embracing personal history and experiences.
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?
Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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