I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing diverse opinions and rejecting societal expectations for women to be passive or silent.
Shirley Manson's quote underscores the value of alternative viewpoints and encourages the empowerment of women beyond traditional roles. By rejecting the idea that women should conform to a docile and attractive persona, Manson advocates for a more robust and diverse representation of women's voices in society.
In practice
In a women's leadership seminar to inspire participants.
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.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
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