Quotes about Perception

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Our brains are organized by narrative and image.

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.