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.
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
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