Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
Margaret HooverRead
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing the LGBTQ+ community as integral members of society.
Margaret Hoover's quote serves as a reminder that individuals who identify as gay or lesbian are not just abstract concepts, but they are people who play various roles in our lives, contributing to our communities in significant ways. It highlights the need for acceptance and understanding, stressing that love and friendship transcend sexual orientation.
Themes
LgbtqAcceptanceCommunityLoveDiversity
In practice
Example use cases
During a pride month gathering, to foster inclusivity and understanding.
More from Margaret Hoover
All quotes βThe conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.
Margaret HooverRead
Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can't dream somebody up out of nothing that's going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.
Margaret HooverRead
The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.
Margaret HooverRead
Some conservative groups believe that a person cannot be both conservative and gay. They believe that traditional lives cannot be led by those who have not traditionally been accepted by society.
Margaret HooverRead
The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.
Margaret HooverRead
Similar quotes
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
Charles DickensRead
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.
C. S. LewisRead
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham LincolnRead
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.
Stephen KingRead
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma GandhiRead
When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.
Esther HicksRead