Aisha Tyler on feminism
Aisha Tyler96 quotes“A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.”
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler “Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler TV always wants more people to be watching.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I really do know football.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
Aisha TylerAisha Tyler After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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