Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
Margaret HooverRead
More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of citizenship, just like their straight brothers and sisters.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the growing acknowledgment of the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ individuals within the Republican Party.
Margaret Hoover emphasizes a shift in the Republican Party's stance on LGBTQ+ rights, recognizing that individuals who identify as gay deserve the same respect and rights as their heterosexual counterparts. This reflects a broader societal change toward acceptance and equality, indicating that political identities are evolving to embrace diversity and promote inclusivity.
In practice
This quote can be used during a pride event to promote inclusivity in politics.
Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.
The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.
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.
The triumph, real triumph of the feminist movement is that women get to choose.
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.
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.
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.
I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
When I wrote 'Lean In,' some people argue that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don't have a partner. They were right.
If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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