Chaim Nahman Bialic Quotes

When I first started, all the media I ever got was, 'Hey! There's this Indian girl. And even though she is Indian, she gets views and stuff.'

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Whilst, alas, upon such times are we fallen that a learned man seems well-nigh a portent, and erudition in a woman is a thing utterly unknown.

Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance—if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion—parlor puppets...

One third of African American males are destined to be in prison sometime in their lifetime.