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.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.
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